Abstract:
30 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 30 healthy people completed the Antonovsky's
Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-29) measuring 3 components: comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness and Endler and Parker's Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) measuring 3 styles of coping: Task- Oriented Coping, Emotion-Oriented Coping, Avoidances- Oriented Coping. The neurologically, mentally and somatically healthy people constituted a control group. The results of research show that patients with MS and the healthy ones are similar in using styles of coping. Both patients with MS and healthy persons with low level of sense of coherence use more Emotion- Oriented Coping style. Avoidances-Oriented Coping style is more used by patients suffering from MS with high level of sense of coherence. Patients with high score in CISS have lower level of comprehensibility than healthy people with high score in CISS.
