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Coping styles and factors in male/female social intergration
Author(s) -
Segal S. P.,
EverettDille L.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1980.tb00561.x
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , social support , gerontology , psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , social psychology
As part of a larger research undertaking which explores the over all life‐experience of former mental hospital patients living in community‐based sheltered‐care facilities in California, predictors of resident social involvement – both within the facility and outside in the community at large – were delineated. In our sample of 499 residents, we found that the types of variables indicating higher levels of social integration differed between male and female residents. The predictors that were most significant for men tended to indicate a coping style based upon access to community resources and feasibility of becoming socially involved. Thus, the opportunities made available to men in sheltered‐care facilities tended to be taken advantage of provided the residents’psychological handicap was not too debilitating. Predictors of higher levels of social involvement for women residents on the other hand, involved the acceptaility of such behavior as appropriate by the community and the facilty operator. Women residents thus appeared to be more sensitive to social, rather than environmental contingencies.