This descriptive study was done to identify the relationship between coping style and trait anxiety in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. The subjects selected were 69 patients who were scheduled for cardiac catheterization in S
hospital
from
November lst, 1994 to May 30th, 1995. Data collection was done using Spielberger's Trait Anxiety Scale, Bendig's Short Form of the manifest Anxiety scale, Crowne & Morlowe's Social Desirability scale, Miller's behavioral Style Scale, Information
Subscale of Krantz Health Opinion Survey and Visual Analog Scale about informaton seeking behavior.
The summary of the findings is as follows :
1. No significant relationship was found between the general characteristics of age, sex, marital status, level of education and occupation, and the variables coping style and trait anxiety.
2. The mean of trait anxiety scores for the Spielberger scale was 46.68. It is slightly above average. The subjects were classified as to personality type : truly low anxious 25 (36.2%), highly anxious 25 (36.2%), and repressing 16(23.2%) using
a
combination of scores from the Bendig Short Form Anxiety Scale and the Crowne Marlowe Social Desirability Scales.
3. No significant relationship was found between Spielberger's trait anxiety and Bendig's personality type.
4. Each subject's preference for either monitor or blunter coping strategy was assessed via the miller Behavioral Style Scale. The proportion of Monitors (47.8%) and Blunters (52.2%) among the subjects were similar. The means of preference for
information measured on the Krantz's subscale and Visual Analog scale were 4.18, 80.79 respectively. Because these scores appeared above average, subjects tended to be higher seeker an information rather than avoiding it.
5. There was no significant relationship between Miller's Behavioral Style and Spielberger's trait anxiety.
6. There was no significantr relatrionships between Bendig's personality types, and the preference on information of Krantz's and visual Analog Scale, and Miller's behavioral Styles. But 56.0% of the subjects who were highly anxious used Monitor
strategy for coping.
Findings from the current study do not permit any relationship inferences between coping style and trait anxiety. Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization must receive interventions on stress reduction because the cvardiac catheterization
creats
a
sitation of psychological stress. Therefore, the nursing intervention of providing information about cardiac catheterization have to be given based on eavch patient's coping style and on their trait anxiety.
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