Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 7815
Individual differences and coping processes in explaining health symptoms in prisoners
Individual differences and coping processes in explaining health symptoms in prisoners // VI European Conference on Psychology and Law / Traverso, Giovanni B. (ur.).
Siena: Universita degli studi di Siena, 1996. str. 34-34 (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, sažetak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Individual differences and coping processes in explaining health symptoms in prisoners
Autori
Buško, Vesna ; Kulenović, Alija
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni
Izvornik
VI European Conference on Psychology and Law
/ Traverso, Giovanni B. - Siena : Universita degli studi di Siena, 1996, 34-34
Skup
VI European Conference on Psychology and Law
Mjesto i datum
Siena, Italija, 28.08.1996. - 31.08.1996
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija
Ključne riječi
personality; coping; health symptoms; prisoners
Sažetak
The study deals with an attempt at application of transactional stress and coping model to the analysis of the determinants of inmate adjustment to imprisonment. Relevant demographic, criminological and personality measures, some situational features, and mediating processes - cognitive appraisals and coping strategies, were taken in the sample of 475 males incarcerated in Croatian penal institutions of minimum, medium or maximum security level. Self-report psychosomatic problems scale was also administered as a short-term measure of inmate adjustment to the conditions of prison life. Relative predictive power of particular groups of individual, situational and mediating variables was estimated by hierarchical regression procedures, with the cognitive appraisal on event controllability taken as a moderator variable. Results showed that in the situation of low level of perceived controllability, all groups of predictor variables accounted for significant portion of criterion variance, whereas significant additive contribution in the group with high perceived controllability was found for personality dimensions and two sets of mediating processes variables. Total amount of variance in psychosomatic problems scores explained by the whole system of employed predictors was 60% and 69%, for the low and high event controllability groups, respectively. Findings support theoretical views on the mediating role of coping mechanisms, and the moderating role of perceived event controllability in establishing the relationships within the stress and coping model.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Psihologija
