The study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of a cognitive-behavioral stress management program on psychosocial stress, mood states, and ways of coping with stress for emergency department (ED) nurses.

The study design was a non-equivalent control group with a pre/post design. The study was conducted from July 1, to September 30, 2016. The sample population comprised nurses who work in ED in Seoul, South Korea. The sample size was 79 which included 39 in the experimental group and 40 in the control group. Seven sessions of a program (50 minutes/session) were provided over 4weeks. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics: the χ²-test and the t-test with the SPSS/WIN 21.0 program.

There were statistically significant differences in psychosocial stress, mood states, and ways of coping with stress between the experimental group and the control group. However, the sub-hypothesis regarding the degree of using passive coping skills was not supported.

The results of this study indicate that a cognitive-behavioral stress management program for ED nurses is effective in reducing psychosocial stress, changing mood states positively, and improving ways of coping with stress effectively.

Distractive emotion regulation, which relieves arousal through attention shift, protects individuals from strong stress. Distractive emotion regulation is widely used in everyday life and although it has great implications in the context of adaptation such as to addiction, it is generally not considered separately from avoidant regulation, it has neither been clearly defined nor measured.

Through a literature review and qualitative analysis, we selected adults’ distractive emotion regulation behaviors. We explored the construct by developing measurement on the distractive behaviors that adults use to regulate emotion.

Factor analysis revealed that distractive emotion regulation consisted of four factors: “consumption distraction” concerned with activities such as shopping, internet use, and TV viewing; “arousal control distraction” related to activities such as exercise, bathing, and deep breathing; “reserving distraction” pertaining to activities such as eating, sleeping, and listening to music; and “aggressive distraction” involving behaviors such as bullying, physical destructiveness, or cursing. Each factor had a different correlation with stress coping dimensions and subjective well-being.

Distractive emotion regulation is a multidimensional concept composed of sub-factors with different functions and clinical implications in daily life.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between perfectionistic self-presentation and social anxiety, how coping style moderated those factors.

This study targeted 389 college students in chungcheongbuk-do province as research tools. Participants completed the Korean version of the Perfectionistic Self Presentation scale, Social Interaction Anxiety Scale, and Coping style Scale. That were analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation, and hierarchical regression analysis using the SPSS 18.0 program.

The results showed that perfectionistic self-presentation, social anxiety, passive coping were positive association. And hierarchical regression analysis showed that, when passive coping was high, the high perfectionistic self-presentational group reported significantly higher social anxiety than the low perfectionistic self-presentational group.

These results suggested the importance of perfectionistic self presentation and coping style in psychological approach to college students who have difficulty in social anxiety problems. And directions for future research were also discussed.

College students experience stress related to its demands. Providing adequate resources to improve stress management remains a challenge. Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness (DISC) is an instrument that accounts for multidimensionality of personality and has been used widely in research and industry. The purpose of this study was to examine DISC behavioral style with perceived stress, coping behavior, and personal satisfaction among college students.

Data were collected from 255 college students using self-reported questionnaire. Univariate descriptive statistical analysis was performed to explore sociodemographic characteristics of the sample. Possible association between sociodemographic variables and perceived stress, coping, personal satisfaction were examined using bivariate analysis with T-tests for independent samples and Chi-square. ANOVA was used to assess possible association between DISC profiles and the following three variables: perceived stress, coping, and personal satisfaction. A Scheffe test was performed post hoc to test for differences in DISC behavioral style and measures of perceived stress, coping, and personal satisfaction.

The distribution of DISC behavioral styles were 49.4%, 23.2%, 18.8%, and 8.6% respectively for dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness. Perceived stress and personal relationship varied significantly with DISC behavioral style (p=.001 and p=.019 respectively). Variation in DISC behavioral style did not demonstrate a significant association with stress coping (p=.383).

Providing stress coping management tailored to DISC behavioral style may be an effective way to improve stress reduction and personal satisfaction among college students.

The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify stresses and coping of recovering alcoholics in communities.

Individual interviews were conducted with a total of 8 recovering alcoholics. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.

Two categories and six subcategories for each category were derived. Two categories were ‘life problems and stresses encountered without drinking’ and ‘constant change efforts and growth’. The identified stresses of the participants were summarized as ‘a body weakened by drinking’, ‘constant vigilance against the ongoing temptation of drinking’, ‘painful regrets for the past’, ‘difficulties in building new relationships’, ‘a lonely life left alone’, ‘a long way to self-reliance’. In addition, the revealed helpful factors in coping with the stresses were ‘strong power by being together’, ‘strong family support’, ‘firm wills constantly strengthened’, ‘healing power of letting-go’, ‘awareness through learning’, ‘participation in various activities to replace drinking’.

Participants were experiencing various stresses caused by physical, mental and social problems in their recovery process and trying to overcome the difficulties by applying various methods. The results of this study may provide significant information to prevent relapse and maintain the recovery process of alcoholics.

Numerous studies have accumulated findings indicating that the way of coping is a critical mediator in the relation between these traumatic events and psychological outcomes. This study investigates the associations between coping strategies and post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in Korean adults.

Through an online survey, 554 non-clinical adult respondents were recruited. We assessed PTSS using the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) scale and measured individual coping strategies using the Ways of Coping Checklist (WCCL). Based on the IES-R standard cut-off score, we categorized the respondents into 3 groups: normal (n=255), non-PTSS (n=185) and PTSS (n=144) after exposure to traumatic events.

The scores of each coping strategy in a PTSS group were generally higher than in either the normal or non-PTSS group. In the logistic regression analysis, PTSS group was 2.77 more likely to use Tension-reduction coping compared to the other two samples.

Our findings suggest that PTSS is associated with high inclination to apply emotion-focused coping such as tension-reduction contributing to psychological distress. These results point to the potential value of coping strategies in prevention of and therapeutic approach to PTSS for non-clinical adults.

The purpose of this study was to explore gender differences in impacts of Type D personality on mental health among Korean college entrants.

A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted. A sample size of 75 male and 138 female students residing in Jeonnam province completed the instruments of Type D personality, perceived stress, coping, and depressive symptoms. Data were analyzed by t-test and multiple regression.

Approximately 55.1% of female and 36.0% of male respondents were Type D. Perceived stress and depressive symptoms in Type D group were higher than in non-Type D group. Type D personality score was associated with perceived stress (β=0.40), problem focused coping (β=−0.32) among male college entrants. In female group, Type D personality score was associated with perceived stress (β=0.43), depressive symptoms (β=0.42), seeking social support (β=−0.25), and wishful thinking (β=0.20).

Male and female college entrants with Type D personality are more vulnerable in mental health. In addition, there are gender differences in Type D personality, stress, and coping strategies. We suggest the need of gender perspective to develop mental health program for college students.

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between early childhood teachers’ technostress and teacher efficacy, and explored the mediation effects of stress coping in the between technostress and teacher efficacy.

The subjects of the study were 197 kindergarten and child care center teachers who work in Seoul and Gyeonggi do. The data were collected from 5, November 2017 to 20, November. It was analyzed with descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and multiple regression using SPSS 20.0 program.

Participants was a moderate degree of technostress and stress coping, and slightly higher degree of teacher efficacy. There were significant correlations among technostress, stress coping and teacher efficacy. Technostress was positively correlated with stress coping and was negatively correlated with teacher efficacy. Stress coping was acted as a mediator in the between technostress and teacher efficacy.

These results suggest that it is necessary to develop and apply an intervention program focusing on stress coping in order to lower the technostress and raise the teacher efficacy of early childhood teachers.

The stress and coping of college students are reported to be closely related to gambling and drinking problems. Therefore, in this study was to examine the perceived stress, coping, gambling and drinking problem of college students, and to identify the correlations between variables and factors affecting gambling and drinking problems.

The subjects were 220 college students in Northern Gyeonggi area and data was collected using self-reported questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS WIN 21.0 program.

15.5% of college students group showed high risk of gambling. Among the male group, 50% of male showed normal drinking level, but 45.7% of male indicated dangerous drinking level, and rest 4.3% showed the alcoholic disorder. While the female group showed somewhat different result with the male group. Among them, 73.4% of female showed normal drinking, but 20% of female showed dangerous drinking problems and 6.3% of female had the alcoholic disorder problem. The common factors influencing college students’ gambling and drinking problems were high due to passive stress coping ways.

College students’ gambling and drinking problems are closely related to stress coping. Therefore, it was found that the stress management program of college students is essential for the prevention and management of gambling problems and drinking problems of college students.

This study was performed to identify the mediating effect of alcohol expectancy and moderating effect of coping response on the relation between university students’ stress and drinking problem.

Data collected from 264 university students’ self-report questionnaire, including life daily stress, alcohol expectancy, coping response, drinking problem were analyzed.

The mediating effect of alcohol expectancy was significant (β=.26, p<.001). Although, the moderating effect of approach coping response was not significant, the moderating effect of avoidance coping response was significant (β=.12, p<.01).

These results suggest that treatment and intervention for drinking problems of university students’ must pay attention on alcohol expectancy and try to decrease the preference of avoidance coping response.