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Perceived Control and Coping in Women Faced with Activity Restriction due to Osteoarthritis: Relations to Anxious and Depressive Symptoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2010

Vicky Rivard  and
Philippe Cappeliez
Vicky Rivard*
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa
Philippe Cappeliez
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa
*
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Abstract

The study focuses on perceived control and coping strategies regarding activity restriction due to osteoarthritis in a sample of older women. Using a cross-sectional design, it examines how these variables, separately and in combination, predict anxious symptoms and depressive symptoms. Perceived control did not predict anxious symptoms, while approach-type coping strategies did. Perceived control and approach-type coping strategies individually predicted depressive symptoms. Higher perceived control in interaction with avoidant-type coping strategies significantly predicted lower depressive symptoms. Overall, the findings suggest that perceived control and coping strategies with regard to activity restriction relate in different ways to anxious symptoms and to depressive symptoms.

Résumé

L'étude examine la relation entre la perception de contrôle et les stratégies d'adaptation par rapport à la limitation des activités due à l'arthrose chez un échantillon de femmes âgées. Le devis transversal explore comment ces variables, séparément et en combinaison, prédisent des symptômes anxieux et dépressifs. Les résultats des analyses de régression multiple indiquent que les stratégies d'adaptation d'approche, et seulement celles-ci, prédisent les symptômes anxieux. Par contre, la perception de contrôle et les stratégies d'adaptation d'approche constituent conjointement des prédicteurs significatifs des symptômes dépressifs. Enfin, une perception de contrôle élevée combinée à une faible utilisation de stratégies d'évitement prédit des symptômes dépressifs moindres. Ces résultats suggèrent que la perception de contrôle et les stratégies d'adaptation par rapport à la limitation des activités due à l'arthrose contribuent de manière différente à l'émergence de symptômes anxieux et dépressifs.

Keywords

aginganxietyarthritiscontrolcopingdepressionvieillissementanxiétéarthritecontrôlefaire facedépression
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Articles
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , Fall/Automne 2007 , pp. 241 - 253
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 2007

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