Sex Differences in the Use of Coping Strategies: Predictors of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms

Overview

Journal Depress Anxiety

Publisher Wiley

Date 2007 Jul 3

PMID 17603810

Citations 97

Authors

Megan M Kelly

Audrey R Tyrka

Lawrence H Price

Linda L Carpenter

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Abstract

This study examined sex differences in the use of coping strategies and their relationship to depression and anxiety-related psychopathology. Responses on measures of coping strategies, depression, and anxiety were obtained from a carefully screened nonclinical sample (N = 107). The results demonstrated that women who used less positive reframing had higher levels of depressive symptoms compared with women who used more positive reframing and to men irrespective of their use of more or less positive reframing. In addition, women who reported the use of more self-blame had elevated levels of trait anxiety, although a similar effect was not found for men. The observed sex differences in the use of coping strategies and their association with depression and anxiety-related problems underscores differences in the clinical presentation of anxiety and depression between women and men.

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