Relationship Between Coping Strategies And Thinking Styles Among University Students

This study aims at exploring the correlation between coping strategies and thinking styles. Methods: The study sample consisted of 62 students (30 females and 32 males) from the Medical Science College in Hodeidah University, Yemen. They responded to the Scale of Coping styles and Inventory of Thinking styles quetionnaire. Results: Active coping strategy was affected significantly by legislative, local and hierarchical thinking styles, while avoidance strategy was affected significantly by oligarchic thinking styles, behavioral conducts by judicial, global and anarchic thinking styles. Significant gender differences were found in behavioral conducts (from coping strategies), anarchic and internal thinking styles with advantage with females. Conclusion: Coping strategies are not independent of thinking styles. These results offer justification and support for future research in larger samples. Potential implications of the impact of thinking styles on coping strategies are also considered.

Paranoid Delusions: A Review Of Theoretical Explanations

Objective: There are two general theoretical explanations for delusions, the deficit and the motivational. In the deficit approach, scientists have argued that delusions are the consequences of fundamental perceptual or reasoning deficits which cause the individual to misunderstand what is happening in the world. The second approach views delusions as serving a defensive, palliative function, as representing an attempt to relieve pain, tension and distress. Methods: The present review article is based on literature review about Paranoid Delusion theories. Results and Conclusion: This article reviews the most important theories in the above mentioned approaches and it has found that we need more studies to verify the results of these approaches. The deficits in reasoning ability for example, need more explanations to show how and why these deficits occur and cause persecutory delusions. In this article I suggest that there are basic cognitive impairments that lead to disturbances in the mental imagination. These disturbances result on the two cognitive deficits (two losses) and force a person to have delusional beliefs. This study is a qualitative study based on judgments of some cases which the researcher has had the opportunity to study