Stress coping strategy and mode of coping, in relation to proneness to cancer and cardiovascular disease(I):

—Analyses in males, in relation to their parents—

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Shigehisa, T., Fukui, I. and Motoaki, H. (1990). Stress coping strategy and mode of coping, in relation to proneness to cancer and cardiovascular disease (I): —Analyses in males, in relation to their parents. Japanese Journal of Health Psychology, 2,—. The aims of this study were (1) to examine the components of the cancer-prone and the cardiovascular disease-prone behavior patterns, as related to the ways of coping with stress, (2) to explore the association between these somatic disease-prone behavior patterns of adolescents and their parents (Mongoloids), and (3) to investigate the relationship between these stress coping processes of younger and elder generations, as measured by culture-fair checklist and questionnaire of Western origin. The mean ages are 20.7 yr. (adolescents) and 51.3 yr. (perents). Four types of disease-prone behavior patterns were measured by the questionnaire, for assessing the psychosocial types, of Grossarth-Maticek et al. Two coping strategies and four modes of coping were determined by the Ways of coping checklist of Lazarus and Folkman on a 4-point Likert scale. The cardiovascular disease-prone behavior pattern was positively correlated with the cognitive strategy and with the mode of coping through searching information, whereas the cancer-prone behavior pattern was not correlated with either component. However, both behavior patterns were positively correlated with components of emotion and direct indiscreet action. Although the cardiovascular disease-prone behavior pattern of adolescents was associated with those of their parents, the cancer-prone behavior pattern of adolescents was associated with the cardiovascular disease-prone behavior patterns of their parents. On the contrary, although either coping strategy, and also each mode of coping, correlated well with each other between two generations, and also between the parents, the adolescents’ coping strategy was not correlated with their parents’ mode of coping. Results were interpreted to show a possible paradigm for future behavioral intervention studies regarding these chronic somatic diseases. In addition, results of son-parents relationship suggested that parents’ rearing attitudes reflected by their cardiovascular disease-prone behavior patterns may have a significant impact on their sons’ proneness to cancer.