A Feminist Perspective on Coping with Interpersonal Stress in Chronic Disease

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dc.contributor.advisorHoffman, Mary Annen_US
dc.contributor.authorReeves, Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-22T06:04:07Z
dc.date.available2017-06-22T06:04:07Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractThe present study used a feminist framework to better understand how women with chronic disease cope with interpersonal, disease-related stressors. Specifically, it examined how gender-related stress, including traits (e.g., unmitigated communion) and relationship schemas (e.g., self-silencing) impact adjustment among women with Celiac Disease, and whether gendered coping processes, such as emotional approach coping, play a mediating or moderating role. Data was collected from 344 women with Celiac Disease through an online survey. Results demonstrate the importance of gender-related stress for psychological adjustment to CD among women. Findings suggest that although emotional approach coping may be a beneficial strategy when managing disease-related interpersonal stress, other forms of coping requiring interpersonal agency may be more important. Future research should investigate relationships between gender-related stress and problem-focused coping while considering the influence of disease-related factors such as time since diagnosis, symptom severity and symptom frequency.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2400W
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19398
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledchronic diseaseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcopingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledinterpersonal stressen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledself-silencingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledunmitigated communionen_US
dc.titleA Feminist Perspective on Coping with Interpersonal Stress in Chronic Diseaseen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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