Coping strategies mediated the relationship between perceived stress and hair cortisol among socioeconomically marginalized parents.

IF 2.4 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Pub Date : 2024-09-07 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1080/21642850.2024.2399211
Jiying Ling, Sisi Chen, Maya Marina
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Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to (1) examine coping strategies and their relationship with demographics, perceived stress, and hair cortisol; and (2) explore whether coping partially mediated the relationship between perceived stress and hair cortisol.

Methods: Baseline data from 191 socioeconomically marginalized parents enrolled in two community-based clinical trials were used. The IBM SPSS Statistics Version 27 and Mplus Version 8 were used for data analyses.

Results: Parents' engagement in various coping strategies differed by age, ethnicity, race, marital status, education level, and number of children living in the household. Parents' use of problem-focused (instrumental support, planning), emotion-focused (venting, self-blame), and avoidant coping (self-distraction, denial, behavioral disengagement) increased from having low to moderate stress. However, when perceived stress increased from moderate to high, their use of emotion-focused and avoidant coping increased significantly, but problem-focused coping did not. Emotion-focused coping lowered the influence of perceived stress on hair cortisol, while avoidant coping increased the relationship between perceived stress and hair cortisol.

Conclusions: Although needing future investigation with longitudinal studies, the results suggest the need of promoting adaptive emotion-focused coping (emotional support, venting, and humor) to help socioeconomically marginalized parents manage their appraised overwhelming and uncontrollable stressors of food, house, and income insecurity.

在社会经济边缘化的父母中,应对策略是感知压力与头发皮质醇之间关系的中介。
研究目的本研究旨在:(1)研究应对策略及其与人口统计学、感知压力和毛发皮质醇之间的关系;(2)探讨应对策略是否部分介导了感知压力和毛发皮质醇之间的关系:方法:使用了参加两项社区临床试验的 191 名社会经济边缘化父母的基线数据。数据分析采用 IBM SPSS 统计 27 版和 Mplus 8 版:不同年龄、民族、种族、婚姻状况、教育水平和家中子女数量的父母在采用各种应对策略方面存在差异。从低度压力到中度压力,家长使用的以问题为中心的应对策略(工具支持、计划)、以情绪为中心的应对策略(发泄、自责)和回避型应对策略(自我疏远、否认、行为脱离)都有所增加。然而,当感知到的压力从中度增加到高度时,他们使用的以情绪为中心的应对方法和回避型应对方法显著增加,但以问题为中心的应对方法却没有增加。以情绪为中心的应对方式降低了感知到的压力对头发皮质醇的影响,而回避型应对方式则增加了感知到的压力与头发皮质醇之间的关系:尽管还需要进行纵向研究,但研究结果表明,有必要促进以情绪为中心的适应性应对(情感支持、发泄和幽默),以帮助社会经济边缘化的父母管理他们所感知到的食物、房屋和收入不安全等难以承受和无法控制的压力。
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来源期刊
CiteScore
3.50
自引率
3.70%
发文量
57
审稿时长
24 weeks
期刊介绍: Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal (HPBM) publishes theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects of research and practice into psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical aspects of health. HPBM publishes international, interdisciplinary research with diverse methodological approaches on: Assessment and diagnosis Narratives, experiences and discourses of health and illness Treatment processes and recovery Health cognitions and behaviors at population and individual levels Psychosocial an behavioral prevention interventions Psychosocial determinants and consequences of behavior Social and cultural contexts of health and illness, health disparities Health, illness and medicine Application of advanced information and communication technology.
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