Abstract

ARIAS, Alejandro  and  TORO, Ronald. Personalidad cognitiva y afrontamiento. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2015, vol.9, n.2, pp.49-59. ISSN 1900-2386.

The aim was to identify the differences between autonomic and sociotropic coping strategies in people with anxiety or depressive symptoms. According to Clark, Beck and Alford (1999) differential coping hypothesis states that there are differential maladaptive coping strategies between sociotropy and autonomy (congruence personality-symptom-coping) in anxiety or depression. The sample was composed of 590 participants aged 18 to 50, of all socioeconomic levels, marital status and educational levels. The results obtained by descriptive-correlational analysis and comparisons revealed significant differences (p = .01) in anxiety for coping sociotropic (search for professional support), coping and depression for autonomic strategies (problems solving). These coping strategies support the evidence of its mediating role in each symptomatic group and cognitive vulnerability hypothesis. In turn, the results obtained by this research support the tripartite model (negative-positive affect) as continuous between anxiety and depression.

Keywords : Coping; sociotropy; autonomy; depression; anxiety.

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