• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.25-38
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• 2015

This paper focused to classify the consumption stress coping types among married women consumers and to investigate the differences of socio-economic variables, social class, perceived health status, and consumption stress among coping types. Data were collected from 500 married women through online surveys in South Korea. Two factors of consumption stress(consumption stress before purchase, consumption stress after purchase), and three factors of consumption stress coping(Social support coping, problem solving focused coping, Passive avoidance coping) were identified. K-mean cluster analysis classified into 4 coping types with consumption stress coping. 15% of the sample were included to the passive coping type, and 25% were classified into the ambivalent coping type. 26.8% of the sample were identified to the active coping type, and 35.2% were maladaptive coping type. There were significant differences among the consumption stress coping types on education, family income, social class, health status, consumption stress after purchase. Consumer education programs should develop and implement especially for passive coping type and maladaptive coping type to cope effectively with consumption stress.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.6
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• pp.255-272
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• 2003

The purpose of this research is to find relationships between safeguards' personality traits and stress coping behaviors. The findings then could provide data to adapt safeguards to their duties. For that, personality traits such as sociability, stability and stress coping behaviors and the effects were investigated. In addition, cognitive aspects which were known to influence stress coping behaviors were appraised. The findings of this research are as follows, First, regarding personality traits and stress coping behaviors, the unstable and unsocial group used the emotion-focused coping style more than the stable and social group. The two groups didn't show any significant differences in the problem-focused coping style. The A-type group used both the problem-focused style and the emotion-focused style more than the B-type group. The common characteristic of the unstable, the unsociable and the A-type groups was the heavy use of avoidance behaviors of the emotion-focused coping style. Second, In the correlation between the personal traits and the stress coping effects regarding adaptability, the stability influenced stress coping effects. Third, regarding the personality traits, the coping styles and the coping effects, A-type group showed high correlation with the sociability but not with the stability. The problem-focused coping style showed high correlation with the emotion-focused style. Fourth, the cognitive appraisal on the stress causes influenced the stress coping styles but not the stress coping effects. Fifth, the cognitive appraisal on the same stress causes didn't show any significant differences among the personality traits.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.659-665
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• 2014

Objectives : This study aimed to determine the effects of stress coping type on self-esteem and satisfaction with life in dental hygiene students. In particular, an attempt is made to determine the effects of sub-factors of stress coping type on self-esteem and satisfaction with life, get a better understanding of self-esteem and satisfaction with life for dental hygiene students, and provide basic data in developing a program that can identify, prevent, and control the problems with stress for dental hygiene students. Methods : This is descriptive correlation research to determine the relations between self-esteem and stress coping type in dental hygiene students. 212 dental hygiene students at colleges in Ulsan Metropolitan City were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire from June 10 to 20, 2013; then, 209 copies were used in analysis, with the exception of 3 copies which were excluded from recording. Results : Self-esteem and satisfaction with life were positively affected by active stress coping but were negatively affected by passive stress coping. As for such sub-factors of stress coping type as problem-focused coping, pursuit of social support, emotional relief coping, and hopeful thinking, the sub-factors of active coping type also positively affected self-esteem and satisfaction with life. Self-esteem interacted with the sub-factors of stress coping type and satisfaction with life. Conclusions : Since stress coping type was found to be a factor affecting self-esteem and satisfaction with life for students, the results of this study are expected to be used as basic data in developing a program that can help them cope actively with stress.

• Women's Health Nursing
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.232-240
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this descriptive survey study was designed to identify the stress coping types of married immigrant pregnant women and find out the differences in maternal-fetal attachment and maternal identity based on each types. Methods: 151 married immigrant women who visited 3 women's hospitals located in J-do for pre-pregnancy checkup were selected as study objects. Data were analyzed by dsecriptive statistics, cluster analysis, t-test, ANOVA, and $Scheff{\acute{e}}$ multiple comparison test. Results: Cluster analysis revealed 4 distinct stress coping styles; low stress-coping involvement social support-oriented type, high stress-coping involvement hopeful thinking type, low stress-coping involvement type, effective stress coping types. Women frequently using effective stress coping type among the four types reported higher maternal-fetal attachment. The group of active coping styles got significantly higher score on maternal identity. Conclusion: Proper stress coping of married immigrant pregnant women regarding pregnancies proved to result in high levels of maternal-fetal attachment and maternal identity. Studies measuring the stress coping styles that affect pregnancies should be continuously conducted.

• Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the mediating effect of stress coping type and self-esteem between life stress and suicidal ideation in nursing college students. The research design was descriptive study. Methods: A set of self-reported questionnaires was completed by 197 nursing college students, including demographic characteristics, life stress, stress coping type, self-esteem, and suicidal ideation. Data was analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, $Scheff{\acute{e}}^{\prime}s$ test, correlation analysis, and regression analysis for mediating effect by SPSS ver. 22. Results: The mean age was 20.9 years. The mean scores were 2.4, 3.6, and 1.7 out of 5 Likert scales for items of life stress, self-esteem, and suicidal ideation, respectively. The mean score for stress coping type was 2.36 out of 4 Likert scales. There was a positive correlation between suicidal ideation and life stress related to tasks, life stress related to interpersonal relationship, and emotion-focused coping of stress coping type (r=.537, p<.01); while a negative correlation between self-esteem and suicidal ideation. emotional-focused coping of stress coping type had a partial mediating effect between life stress related to tasks and suicidal ideation. Also, self-esteem had a partial mediating effect between life stress related to tasks and suicidal ideation as well as between life stress related to interpersonal relationship and suicidal ideation. Conclusion: Based on the finding of this study, it is necessary to apply various program to stress coping skill and self-esteem in order to reduce suicidal ideation in nursing college students.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.135-149
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• 2010

The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of role conflict, childcare stress, and stress coping type on organizational commitment among female workers at hospital settings, and thus, to suggest implications for improving their productivity and quality of working life. Data were collected from 195 female employees working at a general hospital in Busan Metropolitan Area by using structured self-administered questionnaire. Among study variables, role conflict(-) and direct-positive stress coping type(+) had statistically significant effect on organizational commitment. This study results imply that role conflict, and stress coping type are crucial for managing desirable job attitude of female employees. Therefore, education and training, and consultation programme for diminishing role conflict and adopting appropriate stress coping type should be developed and utilized.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.323-330
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate job stress, coping type, and job satisfaction in firefighters. Methods: It was a descriptive study, and 114 subjects were recruited during July to August, 2014. The data were analyzed by t-test, ANOVA (Sheffe's test), and Pearson's correlation coefficient using SPSS/WIN 22.0. Results: The job stress level of subjects was 47.45, coping type was 2.38 and the level of subjects' job satisfaction was 2.97. The job satisfaction was very closely negatively correlated with the job stress (r=-.66, p<.001). Conclusion: These results may contribute to better understanding of stress degree, coping type, and job satisfaction in firefighters. Further follow-up study on firefighters is necessary to relieve their job stress and increase active coping type.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.101-116
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to identify the personality type and stress coping method of students of Dept. dental hygiene students and relationship between them. Second purpose of this study was to suggest the good and useful method of stress coping. Data was drawn from a convenient sample of 350 and 3rd year students of the department of dental hygiene, some college located in Kyung-Ki Province. The results were analyzed with SPSS 10.0 and the conclusion is as follow: 1. The average of Machiavellism type is 3.30, which indicates that most of the students has a middle type(80%). In the A/B type, most of the students has B type(46.7%). In the score of externality and internality, externality(62.6%) is higher than internality(20.3%) 2. As a result of investigating how they coped with stress, the direct coping was utilized most and the physical was utilized least. 3. In the relation between the personality type and stress coping method, non-Machiavellism type has a statistically significant difference, in the direct coping and destructive coping.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.183-191
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• 2001

This was designed to identify the relationship among perceived stress, ways of coping, and type A/B personality of college students. The subjects of this study were 279 from one nursing department and one non-nursing department of junior college in Daejon. and the data were collected from June 5 to 9, 2000. The instruments for this study were the Adolescent Life Change Event Questionnaire developed by Mendez, Yeaworth, York(1982) ways of coping scale developed by Lazarus and Folkman(1984), and the type A/B person-ality scale developed by Vickers(1973). The data were analyzed by utilizing SPSS/PC+ program and the results were as follows : 1. The relationship between 2, 3 grade of nursing curriculum and type A personality revealed a positive significant correlation(p=.021). 2. The subjects perceived high stress in the order of stress related to opposite sex, family, friend, self, school. 3. The subjects revealed that they have the use of stress coping in the order of aesthetic thinking, social support, problem-force, emotion-force coping. 4. There was significant difference in perceived stress according to curriculum(p=.000). 5. There was significant difference in ways of stress coping according to personality type(p=.012). 6. 1) There was positive relationship between stress related to school and problem-force coping, and between stress related to opposite sex and emotion-force coping, 2) There was positive relationship between type A personality and problem-force coping, and social support, and aesthetic thinking coping, respectively.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.75-83
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• 2002

By extracting the variables related to the work stress generated from dental hygiene, identifying their relationships, this study aims to contribute to academic progress on work stress. The test results of this study are as follows for each hypothesis: 1. Among the work stress sensing factors, role ambiguity showed correlation to the active coping strategy and the passive coping strategy, whereas it did not have any correlation to the evasive reation. However, the physical resource environmental factor showed correlation to the active coping strategy, whereas it did not have any correlation to the other reation. 2. The passive coping strategy, among the work stress coping strategies, influences the role ambiguity, B type, work ambiguity, physical resource environmental factor by about 18.7%. 3. The active coping strategy, among the work stress coping strategies, influences the social support, role ambiguity, work place of health center factor by about 18.9%. 4. The evasive reaction, among the work stress coping strategies, was influenced by only the 36 years old over factor by approximately 4.2%. 5. It was found in all work stress sensing factors that the group with lower social support had a more degree of experiencing stress than the group with higher social support. In case of the behavior pattern, the type A experienced more stress than the type B only in role ambiguity. 6. It was found that the group with the higher social support tended to choose more active coping strategy than the lower social support. In case of behavior pattern, the type B coped more actively than type A in the passive coping strategy.