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Other findings indicated that only a small minority responded to diabetes-related problems by denial, behavioural disengagement and substance use.
The 53-item questionnaire assessed 14 ways of coping: positive reinterpretation and growth, active coping, planning, mental disengagement or distraction, venting of emotions, acceptance, denial, behavioural disengagement or giving up, restraint, suppression of other activities, seeking instrumental social support/advice, seeking emotional support, religious coping, and substance abuse.
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24 Other studies have shown that people from ethnic minority groups are more likely to use religion, denial and behavioural disengagement to cope with their condition compared with the white majority.
An encouraging finding from the present study was that the majority of the participants responded to their diabetes-related problems by problem-focused coping strategies instead of emotion-focused coping strategies such as behavioural disengagement, denial, and substance use.
Dysfunctional coping is said to include behavioural disengagement, denial, self-distraction, self-blame, substance use and venting, and it is suggested that it can lead to abusive care [ 88](M).
Not surprisingly, denial was significantly correlated with behavioural disengagement and substance use, and inversely related to acceptance.
In contrast, those considered less functional, such as avoidance, behavioural disengagement or denial, are associated with higher levels of distress [ 12, 13, 22, 25, 26].
These were self-distraction, behavioural disengagement, venting, self-blame, denial and substance use.
Avoidance includes ideational constriction related to the fetal condition, denial of the consequences of the anomaly, blunted sensations, behavioural inhibition, and emotional numbness.
The 14 conceptually differentiable coping reactions are: active coping, planning, using emotional support, using instrumental support, venting, positive reframing, acceptance, denial, self-blame, humour, religion, self-distraction, substance use, behavioural disengagement.
However, some studies have found a negative relationship between perceived vulnerability and behavioural intention and action, which was attributed to denial or avoidance in response to great levels of anxiety in the absence of a sufficient coping appraisal [ 27].
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