Coping and Life Satisfaction - Mediating Role of Ego-Resiliency in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis <br> <br>.
Ego-resiliency is attributed a status of meta resource responsible for a flexible selection of coping strategies depending on requirements of a specific difficult situation. One of the considerably burdensome critical life events is developing a chronic illness such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Apart from coping with the symptoms, fundamental tasks faced by a patient include maintaining high life satisfaction. This raises the question of whether ego-resiliency serves the function of a mediator between coping strategies and life satisfaction. 210 RA patients were invited to participate in this study. They were requested to complete a questionnaire including: Life Satisfaction Scale, Stress Coping Inventory Mini-COPE and Ego-Resiliency Scale. Collected data were analyzed by a simple mediation procedure and estimation of simple correlation coefficients. The analysis demonstrated that ego-resiliency (r = 0.46; p < 0.001) and emotion-focused coping (r = 0.39; p < 0.001) determined life satisfaction. Additionally, ego-resiliency mediated the relation between emotion-oriented coping strategies and life satisfaction. Partial mediation was observed (a = 0.45**; b = 0.36**; c = 0.39**; c'0.22**; R2 = 0.24; F = 35.65; p < 0.001). Our observations partly support the assumption about a controlling role of ego-resiliency in the process of selecting coping strategies according to demands of situations.
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