Relationships between demographic variables and stress coping strategies in sample of Iranian teenage girls

Abstract Adolescent girls face many types of stress, and stress-coping strategies a very important, since the factors related to the styles of adapting to stress have not been sufficiently addressed; thus, this study aimed to investigate the factors related to stress-coping strategies. This descript...

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Main Authors: Nasibe Farmani Qasabe, Gholamreza Garmaroudi, Ehsan Kazemnezhad Leyli, Hassan Farrahi
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Published: BMC 2025-04-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22409-9
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Ehsan Kazemnezhad Leyli
Hassan Farrahi
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description Abstract Adolescent girls face many types of stress, and stress-coping strategies a very important, since the factors related to the styles of adapting to stress have not been sufficiently addressed; thus, this study aimed to investigate the factors related to stress-coping strategies. This descriptive-analytical study, included 1181 adolescent girls in Rasht, Iran, and a cluster sampling method was used. The data collection tool was a two-part questionnaire, which included 17 demographic questions in the first part (age, educational level, number of family members, history of mental illnesses in the family, family rank, father's occupation, mother's occupation, father's education, mother's education, economic status, way of life, type of school, number of students in the class, light in the class, green area, color and building materials, and gender of most teachers), and in the second part of the Lazarus coping styles questionnaire, 66 questions were investigated. Data analysis was performed with SPSS-26, and descriptive indicators of frequency (frequency percentage), and mean and to investigate the correlation between qualitative and quantitative demographic variables with coping strategies, Kruskal–Wallis, Mann–Whitney, and Spearman correlation coefficient tests were used. Logistic regression was used to predict demographic variables.
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spelling doaj-art-d6ca62f35bb84d3799876f0963c7bb982025-08-20T01:47:32ZengBMCBMC Public Health1471-24582025-04-0125111210.1186/s12889-025-22409-9Relationships between demographic variables and stress coping strategies in sample of Iranian teenage girlsNasibe Farmani Qasabe0Gholamreza Garmaroudi1Ehsan Kazemnezhad Leyli2Hassan Farrahi3Department of Health Education and Promotion, Faculty of Health, Tehran University of Medical SciencesDepartment of Health Education and Promotion, Faculty of Health, Tehran University of Medical SciencesDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Health, Road Trauma Research Center, Guilan University of Medical SciencesDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical SciencesAbstract Adolescent girls face many types of stress, and stress-coping strategies a very important, since the factors related to the styles of adapting to stress have not been sufficiently addressed; thus, this study aimed to investigate the factors related to stress-coping strategies. This descriptive-analytical study, included 1181 adolescent girls in Rasht, Iran, and a cluster sampling method was used. The data collection tool was a two-part questionnaire, which included 17 demographic questions in the first part (age, educational level, number of family members, history of mental illnesses in the family, family rank, father's occupation, mother's occupation, father's education, mother's education, economic status, way of life, type of school, number of students in the class, light in the class, green area, color and building materials, and gender of most teachers), and in the second part of the Lazarus coping styles questionnaire, 66 questions were investigated. Data analysis was performed with SPSS-26, and descriptive indicators of frequency (frequency percentage), and mean and to investigate the correlation between qualitative and quantitative demographic variables with coping strategies, Kruskal–Wallis, Mann–Whitney, and Spearman correlation coefficient tests were used. Logistic regression was used to predict demographic variables.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22409-9StressCoping strategiesTeenage girlsIran
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Hassan Farrahi
Relationships between demographic variables and stress coping strategies in sample of Iranian teenage girls
BMC Public Health
Stress
Coping strategies
Teenage girls
Iran
title Relationships between demographic variables and stress coping strategies in sample of Iranian teenage girls
title_full Relationships between demographic variables and stress coping strategies in sample of Iranian teenage girls
title_fullStr Relationships between demographic variables and stress coping strategies in sample of Iranian teenage girls
title_full_unstemmed Relationships between demographic variables and stress coping strategies in sample of Iranian teenage girls
title_short Relationships between demographic variables and stress coping strategies in sample of Iranian teenage girls
title_sort relationships between demographic variables and stress coping strategies in sample of iranian teenage girls
topic Stress
Coping strategies
Teenage girls
Iran
url https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22409-9
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