| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 青少年兒童福利研究所 === 94 === The Correlation Study among Life Stress, Personality Traits, Social Support and Coping Strategies on Epileptic Adolescents
This quantitative study based on purposive sampling selected 90 epileptic adolescents across three nationwide medical centers （Kaoshiung, Taichung, and Taipei Veteran General Hospital, VGH） to examine the current situation and association among variables of life stress, personality traits, social support and coping strategies.
Five scales with good reliability and validity were used as tools of measurement which were signed y original authors as consent form. There were many statistical analyses used as data analyses, such as Frequency Distribution, K-S test, Student t test, One-way analysis of variance, Pearson’s moment correlation matrix, stepwise regression model and generalized linear regression model analysis, etc.
The findings of results are followed as:
1. Epileptic adolescents felt stressful on the future development and expressed the least encounters on dating course.
2. Female epileptic adolescents expressed more stress than male counterparts. Partial seizures of epileptic adolescents showed more stress on school life than unclassified seizures of epileptic adolescents.
3. Epileptic adolescents showed higher score on internal locus of control. However, the locus of control had no association with the demographic variables, such as sex, SES, birth order, etc.
4. Epileptic adolescents showed the most instrumental support and the least emotional support among all types of social supports. Besides, there was a significant difference between age and emotional support, indicating twelve to fifteen years old and over eighteen years old epileptic adolescents had more emotional support than counterparts on fifteen to eighteen years old epileptic adolescents. Epileptic adolescents showed to cope with stress by using emotional/positive the most, next problem/positive, then problem/negative and emotional/negative t strategy he least. There were some significant differences between birth order and coping strategies indicating that adolescents born as the second birth order tended to use more problem/negative coping strategy to cope with stress than those born as the first order.
5. There was some positive correlation relationship existed among life stress, problem/positive strategy, and emotional/positive strategy for epileptic adolescents; however, there was negative correlation relationship among personality traits, problem/positive strategy, and emotional/positive strategy but positive correlation relationship among personality traits, problem/positive strategy and emotional / negative strategy.
6. There indicated around 19% variance of problem/positive strategy predicted by future development and informational support by using stepwise regression model; there indicated around 18% variance of problem/negative strategy predicted by future development and instrumental support by using stepwise regression model; there indicated around 16% variance of emotional/positive strategy predicted by informational support and personality traits by using stepwise regression model; and there indicated around 34% variance of emotional/negative strategy predicted by future development, hetero-sexual interaction, informational support, instrumental support and emotional support by using stepwise regression model.
7. By using Binominal Logistical Regression Model, there indicated that problem/ positive strategy could be predicted by future development and personality traits with 79% accuracy of prediction. In addition, there indicated that emotional/positive strategy could be predicted by physiological/psychological development, emotional support, and personality traits with 81% accuracy of prediction.
8. By using Multi-nominal Logistical Regression Model, there indicated that negative expressions in problem and emotional strategy could be predicted by future development , family life and personality traits.
9. By using Ordinal Logistical Regression Model, there indicated that the coping strategy could be predicted by future development, family life, and personality traits. It showed that the more stress on future development, the more stress family had, and the more tendency to show external locus of control, epileptic adolescents tended to adopt more negative way in problem/emotional coping strategy.
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