How Major Depressive Disorder Patients Do When Coping with Stress?

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the predictor role of coping with stress style subtypes on major depressive disorder (MDD). The sample sizes of 100 participants were randomly selected from clinical patients of mental health hospitals. The DASS-21 scale were applied to assess the depression and the WOCQ inventory with eight subscale of coping with stress subtypes were used to measure the encounter coping, social support search, flight, avoidance, positive evaluation, admission the responsibility, problem solving based on program and continence. Results showed that after three steps the coping with stress subtypes (positive evaluation, flight and avoidance) could predict 63 percent of major depressive disorder's variance. The most significant subtypes of coping styles are weakness in positive evaluating, flight and avoidance which could highly predict MDD.