Research Article
How Older Female Spouses Cope with Partners’ Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Table 2
Stress, personality, and coping data.
| | Mean | SD | Range |
| Stress and personality measures | | | | FILE (life-change stress) | 5.4 | 4.6 | 0–20 | Spouse’s perception scale (appraisal) | 178.9 | 21.3 | 122–229 | Resilience | 139.4 | 20.7 | 54–175 | Social support index | 51.2 | 8.4 | 27–68 | Ways of coping (WCQ raw scores) | | | | Positive reappraisal coping | 1.35 | .59 | .14–3.00 | Planful coping | 1.19 | .60 | .17–2.67 | Seeking social support coping | 1.19 | .58 | .00–2.50 | Self-controlling coping | 1.02 | .59 | .00–2.71 | Distancing coping | .74 | .46 | .00–2.17 | Confrontive coping | .48 | .45 | .00–2.33 | Escape-avoidance coping | .46 | .35 | .00–1.38 | Accepting responsibility coping | .33 | .53 | .00–2.25 |
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