تفاوت هاي دانشجويان پسر و دختر (زن و مرد) در مقياس ايراني مقابله

Gender differences in Iranian Coping Scale among college students

Efforts to ascertain gender-based similarities and differences in coping strategies have led to dissimilar and sometimes contradictory results thereby requiring further research in this area. ln order to determine the role of gender in the employment of coping strategies, a sample of 590 female (mean age 22.6) and 470 male (mean age 23.8) college students completed the Iranian Coping Strategies Scale lICS; Dadsetan, Asgari Hajizadegan, 2008a). MAN COYA results showed girls had significantly higher means in the social support, spiritual support and wishful thinkingworry strategies while boys scored higher in the distracting and submission strategies. After controlling for age effects (MANCOYA), the only meaningful difference which remained was the more frequent application of submission strategy by boys and girlsʹ mean score in applying cognitive avoidance strategy significantly increased. Analysts of the role of age in coping strategies indicates a strong developmental basis in each genderʹs choice of coping strategies.