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Coping with multiple sclerosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Sheila M. Greene  and
Anne Hickey
Sheila M. Greene
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin 2
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Abstract

A questionnaire containing the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scale, a focus of coping scale, the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale, and the Hopelessness scale was posted to 50 male and 50 female Dublin members of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland. The aim of the study was to examine ways in which people with multiple sclerosis cope with their illness, and to determine whether the coping strategies used were effective or ineffective in terms of the relations between the scales that were used. Sex differences on each of the scales were also examined. Results indicated that there were some sex differences on the locus of control scale. However, no sex differences were found on the focus of coping, or on the depression and hopelessness scales. Rather, both sexes were found to have mean depression and hopelessness scores above what is considered to be the norm for both of these scales.

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Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , September 1989 , pp. 118 - 124
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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