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Recovery from minor abdominal surgery: A preliminary attempt to separate anxiety and coping
Author(s) -
Manyande Anne,
Salmon Peter
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1992.tb00989.x
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiety , coping (psychology) , worry , clinical psychology , personality , arousal , minor surgery , checklist , trait anxiety , cognition , psychiatry , surgery , social psychology , medicine , cognitive psychology
Using bivariate and canonical correlations, we investigated the dimensionality and post‐operative correlates of indices which, we suggested, could be related to active cognitive coping in 40 patients undergoing minor abdominal surgery. Trait anxiety and pre‐operative state anxiety were also measured; these intercorrelated, but each was independent of the putative coping measures. There were, however, intercorrelations amongst these questionnaires, which included the ‘worry’ scale of a coping checklist, Type A personality, pre‐operative arousal and, in a negative direction, ‘powerful others' health locus of control and pre‐operative stress. The dissociation between anxiety and the remaining measures emerged also in the post‐operative correlates of these two dimensions. Whereas anxiety predicted poorer self‐rated bodily state on the first post‐operative day, the coping measures predicted a better state seven days post‐operatively.