The Strategies of Coping with Stress in Workplace Used by Surgeons Working in Different Hospitals - A Pilotage Research

• Authors: Małgorzata Basińska , Kinga Dziewiątkowska-Kozłowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the study was an evaluating the frequency for adapting different strategies within the group of surgeons to cope up with stress and determining the differentiation on their usage depending on the type of the hospital unit and social-demographic variables.Material and methods. The samples were 40 surgeons from hospitals. Following research methods were applied: 1. Latack Coping Scale was used to investigate the strategies of coping with stress; 2. Personal questionnaire was used to obtain general social-demographic data about subjects.Results. The Latack scale is a reliable tool for testing work related stress coping strategies within a group of surgeons. Active strategies are more common than avoiding strategies. Surgeons mostly use Direct action and Positive thinking strategy in coping with stress at work. In turn, Alcohol use strategy is rarely use by subjects to solve difficult professional situations. The lack of significant differences in frequency of usage of particular strategies in correlation with the hospital type was observed. There is positive correlation which is statistically significant between analyzed social-demographic variables and usage of Avoidance/Resignation strategy within examined surgeons. The more experienced, older people are, the more likely it is that they will use this strategy in stressful situations.Conclusions. Surgeons usually use adaptive strategies in coping with stress at work.

Keywords

EN

coping with stress at work; surgeons

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Surgery
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 84
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 76-81

Dates

published

1 - 2 - 2012

online

9 - 4 - 2012

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Basińska

• Department of Psychophatology and Clinical Diagnosis, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz

author

Kinga Dziewiątkowska-Kozłowska

• Department of Psychophatology and Clinical Diagnosis, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10035-012-0012-5