The Study On Coping Resources Of Paraplegic

For exploring the coping resources of paraplegic, a set of self-assessment questionnaires was surveyed in this study. The participants reported their functional status, life events, coping strategies, personality, perceived social support, spirit adjusting and their life quality. At the same time, the data of life events, coping strategies and life quality of health participants were used to comparing with paraplegic' data.The results indicated that (1)Paraplegic is lower than health people at the life quality, except the material life degree; paraplegic is more higher than health people at the stimulation of the negative life events. (2) The health people used coping growing and problem solving strategies more frequently, the paraplegic more use wishful thinking seeking support, and self-controlling coping strategies. (3)Face to strong stressor of disability and life events, paraplegic come into drastic psychological coping process at once. The coping is successful or not, will affect progress of rehabilitation, improving of life quality, and ability of regressing to society.(4) In the coping process, paraplegic' age and cause of disease is individual factor; complication, function independency and the negative life events are startup factor; the coping resources (wishful thinking, seeking support, growing, problem solving, neurotic character or emotion stability, fighting spirit and helpless/hopeless, and social supports) are very important factor.(5) the elder, unforeseen cause of disease, wishful thinking, emotion un-stability, and helpless/hopeless play negative role, the seeking support, growing, problem solving, emotion un-stability, fighting spirit, and social support play improving role. Moreover, (6)there are correlation and/or causation relationship in all parts of coping resource. The character and social support affect to coping strategies and fighting spirit; the coping strategies affect the fighting spirit; every coping strategies affect each other; the fighting spirit and helpless/hopeless have inter-transforming probability.The results also show that, when we intervene paraplegic' coping, we have to consider their age and cause of disease, depress the stressor, including improving functionality and positive cognitive evaluation, stabilizing their emotion, strengthening social supports, coaching them using the positive coping strategies, training fighting spirit and reducing the helpless/hopeless.