ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 2018 | Volume
: 50 | Issue : 1 | Page : 20--26
Stress and coping strategies: The impact on health
Ram Kumar Gupta, Shirley Telles, Nilkamal Singh, Acharya Balkrishna
Patanjali Research Foundation (Trust), Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India
Correspondence Address:
Shirley Telles
Patanjali Research Foundation, Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar - 249 405, Uttarakhand
India
Objective: This study was conducted to assess (i) the relationship between stressful life events and coping strategies, (ii) how stressful life events influence stress indicators, and (iii) how variations in stress indicators occur according to the coping strategies adopted.
Materials and Methods: Coping strategies, stressful life events, and stress indicators were assessed in 72 participants (group average age ± standard deviation, 31.9 ± 14.3 years; 36 males) as a single-group, cross-sectional study.
Results: Participants with low, medium, and high stressful life events showed a positive correlation with disengagement (e.g., social withdrawal) (p < 0.01). A high level of stressful life events was positively correlated with physical (p < 0.05) and behavioral indicators (p < 0.05). Coping strategies such as problem-solving (p < 0.05) and cognitive restructuring (p < 0.05) showed a negative correlation with behavioral indicators; wishful thinking (p < 0.01) showed a positive correlation with emotional indicators. Engagement showed a negative correlation with behavioral indicators (p < 0.05) and disengagement was found to be positively correlated with emotional indicators (p < 0.01).
Conclusion: The higher the stressful life event scores, the greater was the chance of using unhealthy coping strategies; (ii) high stressful life events correlated positively with physical and behavioral stress indicators; and (iii) healthy coping strategies (e.g., problem-solving) resulted in lower behavioral indicators of stress.
How to cite this article:
Gupta RK, Telles S, Singh N, Balkrishna A. Stress and coping strategies: The impact on health.Yoga Mimamsa 2018;50:20-26
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Gupta RK, Telles S, Singh N, Balkrishna A. Stress and coping strategies: The impact on health. Yoga Mimamsa [serial online] 2018 [cited 2023 Jun 1 ];50:20-26
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