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Emotions, Coping, and Psychological Well-Being in Elderly People with Arthritis

Barbara L. Downe-Wamboldt

Patricia M. Melanson

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Rheumatoid arthritis, the most destructive and crippling of allforms of arthritis, poses a number of stressful demands on individuals. In a sample of elderly women (N = 59) and men (N = 19) with rheumatoid arthritis, the relationship between social economic status, severity of impairment, sex, stress emotions, type of coping strategy, and psychological well-being was explored. Path analysis results indicated that higher social economic status was directly related to greater use of confrontive types of coping strategies. Severity of impairment had a direct, negative influence on psychological well-being, but sex was not an important factor Optimistic coping strategies were used most often and emotive coping strategies the least.

Western Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 17, No. 3, 250-265 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/019394599501700302
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