Cognitive Emotional Coping Strategies in Women abused in Their Childhood
Cognitive Emotional Coping Strategies in Women abused in Their Childhood
Author(s): Angela Verdeș, Natalia Rotaru-SîrbuSubject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: cognitive emotion strategies; abuse; women
Summary/Abstract: In this article we investigated the presence of child abuse in women; the comparative evaluation of coping strategies, cognitive-emotional in two groups of women: abused and non-abused (N = 175). For this purpose, we used the Child Abuse and Trauma Scale (Sanders, Becher-Lausen, 1995), as well as the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ, Garnefski, Kraaij, Spinhoven, 2001). The results show that generally there are differences in which coping strategies are used by non-abused and abused women when it comes to slow adaptable strategies. Such strategies as Self-blaming, Blaming others and Catastrophizing are more frequently utilized in case of women who experienced child-abuse. Non-abused women adopt high adaptable strategists in stress management, especially Refocusing on Planning and Positive Reevaluation, where they got high scores. Regarding correlations of cognitive-emotional inter-strategies for women who were abused in childhood, we remark that there are associations between slow adatable strategies, Self-blaming, Catastrophizing and Acceptance; moderated correlations between Acceptance and Rumination.
- Issue Year: 12/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 61-68
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English