Role of Coping Strategies and Social Support in Perceived Illness Consequences and Controllability among Diabetic Women

Purnima Awasthi and R.C. Mishra
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Purnima Awasthi: Purnima Awasthi is Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She is primarily interested in the study of health beliefs and practices, and their application to community development. e-mail: saxenapurnima2002@yahoo.com, awasthip9@gmail.com
R.C. Mishra: R.C. Mishra is Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has published in the fields of cognition, acculturation, schooling and cross-cultural studies.

Psychology and Developing Societies, 2007, vol. 19, issue 2, 179-197

Abstract: Interest in the processes by which people cope with stress has grown dramatically over the past decade. In the present study the role of coping strategies and social support in perceived illness consequences and illness controllability beliefs among diabetic women (n = 100) were studied. It was found that approach coping strategies reduced the severity of perceived illness consequences, whereas avoidance coping strategies increased the severity of perceived illness consequences. The approach strategies of coping were positively correlated to self and doctors’ control. The patients characterised by high level of social support felt less severe consequences of illness. These findings are discussed in the context of the current analyses of lay theories and also folk models of illness find due representation.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/097133360701900203

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