Are There Any Relationship Between components of Coping styles and Health Anxiety of Divorced Women

The purpose of the study was to investigate the role of ways of coping (Direct confronting coping style, distancing style, self-controlling style, seeking social support style, Accepting responsibility style, Escape Avoidance style , Planful problem solving style and Positive reappraisal style) with health anxiety among Andimeshk divorced women. This study was a descriptive – correlation study but the final target is applied. The population in this study included women who got divorced in Andimeshk in the first half of last year. Before, divorced women referred to the Family Intervention Center, affiliated to the Social Welfare Department to reduce the divorce. Between them (90 person) by simple random sampling 73 (of Morgan table) as samples were selected. Data collection tools include Lazarus and Folkman ways of coping questionnaire (1994), Salkovskis, and Warwick Health anxiety questionnaire (2002). Results: To analyze the data, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple linear regressions have used, the results showed that there is a significant negative relationship between the ways of coping and health anxiety of the divorced women. The results showed that only 24 percent of the variance in health anxiety can be explained, by variables coping style. Based on the results, there was a significance relationship between the ways of coping Included: distancing style, seeking social support, problem solving, positive reappraisal and health anxiety with divorced women in Andimeshk. However, this relationship was not significant with direct confronting coping, self-controlling and Escape Avoidance style with health anxiety.

Keywords:

Components of Coping styles , Divorced women , Health anxiety , Ways of coping