I dieted myself out like most people – if they are dieting, they tend to get very big, and they get bigger and bigger with every diet, and there is more self-loathing, more blaming, more comfort eating, more withdrawal, so you've got that avoiding, coping behaviour.
Of men with a more avoiding coping style a lower percentage had contact with a GP.
He distinguished three components of coping attitudes: a passive avoiding coping pattern of responding to the assessment, a problem-focussed coping pattern, and an emotion-focussed coping pattern, which includes the degree of seeking social support and expressing emotions.
Men with a predominantly avoiding coping style sought care less often from a GP or medcial specialist, whereas men with a support seeking coping style visited the GP more often.
"Anything too funky or arty, they tend to avoid," Cope says.
The construct depersonalization may also be considered an avoiding coping strategy, which may easily be adopted by men as a method to deal with a stressful situation.
Approached patients vulnerable to short-term high distress were younger, single, less optimistic, experienced little social support, used an avoiding coping style and displayed a lower quality of life and higher distress level before approach for genetic counseling.
Compared to the IES low group, the IES increase group demonstrated a more avoiding coping style (Z = −2.011, p = 0.044) and a higher anxiety and depression (Z = −2.063, p = 0.038) and breast-cancer-specific distress (Z = −3.130, p = 0.001) at baseline.
Compared to the HADS low group, the HADS increase group had a more avoiding coping style (Z = −2.718, p = 0.006) and reported lower quality of life (Z = −3.056, p = 0.002), more anxiety and depression (Z = −4.231, p = 0.000) and more breast-cancer-specific distress (Z = −2.777, p = 0.005) at baseline.
Behavioural response to HIREC fall into several main categories: (i) avoiding or coping with novel enemies (e.g. predators, parasites, diseases; including humans); (ii) adopting and utilizing novel resources or habitats; (iii) avoiding or coping with novel abiotic stressors (e.g. pollutants); and (iv) adjusting to changing spatiotemporal conditions (e.g. habitat fragmentation, climate change).
