Patterns of children's coping with an aversive dental treatment.

Abstract

Children's disposition to monitor for threat-relevant cues predicted their coping strategies and levels of distress when dealing with invasive dental work. High monitors reported that they had engaged in greater sensory vigilance and avoidance strategies during treatment. Neither the tendency to monitor nor children's sensory vigilance was related to videotape observations of their attention deployment. High monitors reported increased anxiety and were rated as more anxious, particularly when they also engaged in high avoidance. Children's reports of question asking were related to videotape observations of question asking. In addition, children who asked more questions were rated as more anxious and disruptive during treatment. Individual differences in how children deal with a familiar--but largely uncontrollable--stressor are discussed, particularly with respect to the encounter phase of coping.

Monitoring, trait anxiety, and panic disorder symptomatology in normal subjects

“…This "nding is in keeping with the results of previous studies showing that subjects relying on a high monitoring coping style perceive potentially threatening stimuli and situations as more threatening than subjects relying on a low monitoring coping style (see Baptista et al, 1990;Muris & Van Zuuren, 1992;Muris & De Jong, 1993;Muris, De Jong & Suvrijn, 1995;Schwartz et al, 1995) and, on "rst sight, seem to provide further support for the Monitoring Process Model (e.g., Miller et al, 1995). However, the observed correlations between monitoring and panic disorder symptoms were rather small.…”

Monitoring coping style moderates emotional reactions to genetic testing for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer: a longitudinal study

“…It has excellent predictive validity, and is internally consistent and stable over time [35]. Empirical evidence suggests that the blunting subscale is unreliable, so we classified participants as high or low monitors using monitoring scores alone [33,35,43,52,53]. Monitoring mean scores in our sample (9.17 AE 2.92) were comparable to reports in non-medical settings [35], showing that the sample was not skewed toward high monitors.…”

“…We focused on high monitors [33]: individuals who vigilantly attend to threatening cues in their environment in an attempt to emotionally process the situation and who actively engage in information seeking and cognitive problem solving with the intention of taking precautions. When faced with a health threat, high monitors are more likely to report heightened distress than are individuals who tend to distract themselves in the face of such information [13,[34][35][36][37][38].…”

Relationship of Coping Responses and Anxiety Symptoms in Hispanic Youth

“…Coping in youth has been evaluated widely within medical settings, given that medical conditions or procedures elicit anxiety in children [14,15]. In a recent study, Compas et al [16] examined how 153 children from the ages of 5 to 17 years old coped with cancer using the Responses to Stress Questionnaire-Pediatric Cancer Version.…”