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The research aimed at searching for the relationship between the ways of coping with stress and the sense of coherence in women suffering from bulimia nervosa. The study comprised 36 women with bulimia nervosa according to the ICD-10 criteria, as well as 46 healthy women, constituting the control group. The members of both groups were not substantially different considering their age, their marital status, and their education. In the study, the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) by Endler and Parker was used alongside the Life Orientation Questionnaire (SOC-29) by Antonovsky. When coping with stress, women with bulimia nervosa use the emotional style and the avoiding style in the form of undertaking substitutive activities significantly more frequently than healthy women, and they use the task-oriented style significantly less frequently.
Women suffering from bulimia are characterized with a substantially weaker sense of coherence, both in the total result and in particular dimensions. The research confirmed the partially accepted hypotheses concerning the interrelation between the ways of coping with stress and the sense of coherence of the participants. In the group of women with bulimia, the task-oriented style correlates positively with the feeling of comprehensibility, whereas the emotional style correlates negatively with the general sense of coherence as well as its particular dimensions. The avoiding style of coping with stress in the form of undertaking substitutive actions correlates negatively with the sense of comprehensibility and the sense of meaningfulness, as well as with the total SOC in women suffering from bulimia nervosa. The received results can constitute the basis for further analyses aiming at searching for interrelations between different dimensions of the psychosocial functioning of people with eating disorders.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/j.2017.30.3.137
Date of publication: 2018-01-17 10:12:14
Date of submission: 2017-08-04 23:28:41
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