The Relationship between Stressors and Coping Strategies Employed by Retired Elderly
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Abstract:
Introduction
Elderly when faced with different types of stressors, employ various coping strategies that are associated with different consequences for their physical and mental health. This study aimed to identify the stressors and coping strategies were employed in Elderly of East of Guilan.
Methods
This study was cross-sectional correlational-analytic. In this study, 124 elderly over 60 years old randomly selected from East Guilan’s Retirement Centers and their demographic factors, stressors in elderly and coping strategies examined using Endler and Parker questionnaire. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS 18 software and t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, Mann-Whitney U tests.
Results
The results showed that the most frequent stressor is related to the empty nest (766.5 ± 81.26) and women reported more stress than men did (144.10 ± 26.495). The most used coping strategy by studied elderly was emotion-focused strategy (129.10 ± 69.51).
Conclusions
In this study, the most stressor was the empty nest; the most used coping strategies were emotion-focused, and running away from the problem. Therefore, due to the need to take appropriate coping strategies in older people, paying attention to this valuable group of society and also organizing education and counseling programs for these people and their families is important.
Language:
Persian
Published:
Iranian Journal of Psychiatric Nursing, Volume:4 Issue: 5, 2017
Pages:
36 to 43
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