A Clinical Investigation of Self-Efficacy, Outcome Expectancy, Coping Styles, and Emotional Adaptation in Diabetes Mellitus Patients
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Ren, Yi-Chien
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the association between self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, coping style, and emotional adaptation in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients when they confronted with disease-related stress. This study used questionnaires and the subjects consisted of 35 DM patients and 37 other chronic diseases patients (including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and gout). The results revealed that, between the DM patients and the non-DM patients, there were no significant differences in all dependent variables except for outcome expectancy, in which the DM patients were more positive than non-DM patients. Besides, all patients used problem-focused coping most frequently, this may suggest that the self-care controllability of these chronic diseases is above some level so that the patients tend to use problem-focused coping for disease-related stress. An exploratory path analysis in DM group suggested that problem-focused coping predicted depression, and problem-focused coping and avoidant coping were predicted by self-efficacy, which may be the most powerful predictor for patients’ emotional adaptation.
Subjects
糖尿病
慢性病
因應
自我效能
結果預期
情緒適應
diabetes mellitus
chronic disease
coping
self-efficacy
outcome expectancy
emotional adaptation
SDGs
Type
other