Behav Med. 1998 Spring;24(1):41-4.  

Erratum in:
    Behav Med 1998 Summer;24(2):88.

Self-reported coping behavior in health and disease: assessment with a card sort
game.

Schwartz CE, Peng CK, Lester N, Daltroy LH, Goldberger AL.

Frontier Science & Technology Research Foundation, Chestnut HIll, Massachusetts,
USA.

The authors tested the hypothesis that individuals with a variety of severe
chronic illnesses and the healthy elderly exhibit a loss of flexibility in their
response to a variety of stressors, compared with healthy adults. A card sort
game designed to assess self-reported coping behavior under different stressful
life situations was used to compare healthy adults with individuals with
multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and the
elderly. The healthy adults were found to exhibit more variability than any of
the illness groups or the elderly. Healthy function is marked by a complex type
of variability.

Publication Types:
    Clinical Trial
    Controlled Clinical Trial

PMID: 9575391 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]