Objective: To examine relationships among coping, stress responses, pain, somatic symptoms, and anxious/depressed symptoms in a sample of children and adolescents with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP).
Method: We assessed parents' reports of coping and involuntary responses to stress in relation to pain, somatic symptoms, and symptoms of anxiety and depression in a sample of 174 children and adolescents with RAP.
Results: Based on parent reports, children's primary control engagement coping (e.g., problem solving, emotional modulation) and secondary control engagement coping (e.g., acceptance, distraction, positive thinking) in response to pain were associated with fewer somatic complaints and symptoms of anxiety and depression; secondary control engagement coping was also associated with less pain. Involuntary engagement (e.g., physiological reactivity, rumination) and disengagement (e.g., escape, inaction) responses to pain were associated with more somatic symptoms and higher levels of anxiety and depression.
Conclusions: We highlight implications of these findings for understanding processes of coping and stress reactivity in children with RAP.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/27.3.215 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Distress and coping mechanisms among people with diabetes: cross-sectional assessment from an NCD screening clinic of a tertiary care hospital in North India.
Diabetol Metab Syndr
January 2025
Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, Haryana, India.
Background: Of the numerous complications encountered by people with diabetes (PWD), the effect on mental health is concerning. Within mental health, diabetes distress (DD) occurs when a patient has unfavourable emotional stress while managing their condition, which can be managed by coping strategies but are less studied together in Indian settings. So, the present study aimed to determine the proportion of DD and associated factors and coping skills among the PWD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychophysiological stress response, emotion dysregulation and sleep parameters as predictors of psychopathology in adolescents and young adults.
J Affect Disord
January 2025
Department for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany. Electronic address:
Background: Increased emotional reactivity to stress, emotional dysregulation and sleep disturbances are interdependent trans-diagnostic processes that are present in internalising disorders such as depression and anxiety disorders. This study investigated which objective and subjective parameters of stress reactivity, sleep and emotional processing would predict symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescents and young adults.
Methods: Participants were adolescents and young adults between the ages of 14 to 21 (N = 106, 25[24 %] male, M age = 17.
Coping after the COVID-19 pandemic: nurses' learning intent and implications for the workforce and education.
Br J Nurs
January 2025
Professor, Department of Nursing, Beaver College of Health Sciences, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA.
Background/aim: Addressing the critical global shortage of nurses requires an understanding of how a global pandemic reshaped nurses' motivations and intentions toward education. This study aimed to describe COVID-19's impact on nurses' intent to pursue additional education.
Method: This descriptive study, based in North Carolina in the USA, used content analysis with an inductive approach to examine the responses of nurses to one open-ended question in a large quantitative workforce survey: how has COVID-19 influenced your plans for future education? Responses were coded with counts and organised into themes and subthemes.
The contribution of cognitive disengagement syndrome symptoms to depressive symptoms among pediatric brain tumor survivors.
J Pediatr Psychol
January 2025
The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States.
Objective: Pediatric brain tumor survivors (PBTS) are at risk for neurocognitive late effects that can resemble symptoms of cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS). In the current study, we compared the CDS symptoms of PBTS to those of healthy comparison classmates (CC) and examined whether CDS might explain group differences in depressive symptoms. We also explored whether CDS symptoms were associated with engagement-based coping strategies and stress responses, thereby testing one mechanism by which CDS could lead to affective difficulties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Genetics and Breeding of Heat Stress Tolerance in Wheat: Advances and Prospects.
Plants (Basel)
January 2025
Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Heat stress is one of the major concerns for wheat production worldwide. Morphological parameters such as germination, leaf area, shoot, and root growth are affected by heat stress, with affected physiological parameters including photosynthesis, respiration, and water relation. Heat stress also leads to the generation of reactive oxygen species that disrupt the membrane systems of thylakoids, chloroplasts, and the plasma membrane.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!