TY - JOUR
T1 - Coping specificity
T2 - The case of women coping with infertility treatments
AU - Benyamini, Yael
AU - Gefen-Bardarian, Yifat
AU - Gozlan, Miri
AU - Tabiv, Geula
AU - Shiloh, Shoshana
AU - Kokia, Ehud
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a grant from the Israel Foundations Trustees. We would like to thank Itamar Gati for his assistance with the ADDTREE procedure, Amiram Vinokur and Ilan Roziner for their advice and Galina Vromen for her thoughtful translations. Part of the research was conducted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a master’s degree at the Tel Aviv University by the second author.
PY - 2008/2
Y1 - 2008/2
N2 - Customizing the measurement of coping to a specific situation can answer some of the concerns regarding its measurement by checklist. A context-specific measure of coping with infertility was developed on the basis of theoretical principles of coping, interviews with women and providers, and existing findings. Data on the resulting Coping with Infertility questionnaire was collected from 652 Israeli women undergoing treatment and meta-strategies of coping were identified on the basis of a hierarchical structure of the coping subscales. About half of the women also filled in adjustment measures and findings showed differential associations of coping strategies to negative and positive indicators of psychological adjustment. Taking into account coping specificity can highlight strategies that function in ways that are unique to the context. This approach could be useful as a step in the assessment and understanding of coping with a specific health threat, which can guide further research and interventions designed to improve coping effectiveness.
AB - Customizing the measurement of coping to a specific situation can answer some of the concerns regarding its measurement by checklist. A context-specific measure of coping with infertility was developed on the basis of theoretical principles of coping, interviews with women and providers, and existing findings. Data on the resulting Coping with Infertility questionnaire was collected from 652 Israeli women undergoing treatment and meta-strategies of coping were identified on the basis of a hierarchical structure of the coping subscales. About half of the women also filled in adjustment measures and findings showed differential associations of coping strategies to negative and positive indicators of psychological adjustment. Taking into account coping specificity can highlight strategies that function in ways that are unique to the context. This approach could be useful as a step in the assessment and understanding of coping with a specific health threat, which can guide further research and interventions designed to improve coping effectiveness.
KW - Adjustment
KW - Coping
KW - Coping assessment
KW - Infertility
KW - Stress
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=37849029595&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14768320601154706
DO - 10.1080/14768320601154706
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AN - SCOPUS:37849029595
SN - 0887-0446
VL - 23
SP - 221
EP - 241
JO - Psychology and Health
JF - Psychology and Health
IS - 2
ER -