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