抄録
The relationship between patterns of coping with daily hassles and stress responses among middle-aged and elderly Japanese retirees was investigated. TAC-24 (Kamimura et al., 1995) used as a stress coping scale, and the Japanese version of GHQ-28 (Nakagawa & Daibou, 1985) used as a stress response scale, were administered to a sample of 273 people aged 50-70. Results of cluster analyse indicated that coping patterns in the sample could be classified into five types: (a) high scores in “Catharsis”, “Plan drafting”, and “Avoidance-like thinking” and low scores in “Giving up” (CL1), (b) low scores for each kind of coping (CL2), (c) high scores in “Plan drafting” (CL3), (d) high scores for each kind of coping (CL4), and (e) high scores in “Giving up” (CL5). Results of a one-way analysis of variance revealed that participants who belonged to the CL4 group tended to show more stress responses than participants in other clusters. These results suggest that knowledge about coping patterns of Japanese middle-aged and elderly people is important for planning effective coping strategies.
