06 March 2026 : Clinical Research
Determinants of Stress Coping Strategies of Doctors in Poland's Silesian Voivodeship
Ewa Marcisz-Dyla
ABCDEF 1*, Józefa Dąbek ABCD 2
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.951073
Med Sci Monit 2026; 32:e951073
Table 2 Stress coping strategies by sex and specialization.
| Coping strategies (in points) | N=655 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical specialization | Non-surgical specialization | Males surgical specialization vs non-surgical specialization | Females surgical specialization vs non-surgical specialization | Specialization × sex | ||||||||||
| Male (n=132) | Female (n=134) | Post hoc test* | Male (n=122) | Female (n=267) | Post hoc test* | Post hoc test* | Post hoc test* | ANOVA Kruskal-Wallis | ||||||
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Z | P | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Z | P | Z | P | Z | P | Chi2 | P | |
| Active coping | 4.66 (1.19) | 4.49 (1.12) | −1.46 | 0.14 | 4.56 (1.16) | 4.51 (1.07) | −0.51 | 0.60 | −0.88 | 0.38 | −0.01 | 0.99 | 3.12 | 0.37 |
| Planning | 4.53 (1.12) | 4.44 (1.11) | −0.70 | 0.48 | 4.52 (1.17) | 4.55 (1.12) | −0.25 | 0.80 | −0.18 | 0.86 | −0.84 | 0.40 | 0.75 | 0.86 |
| Positive reinterpretation | 3.86 (1.32) | 3.65 (1.20) | −1.16 | 0.25 | 3.66 (1.30) | 3.57 (1.41) | −0.54 | 0.59 | −1.29 | 0.20 | −0.77 | 0.44 | 4.19 | 0.24 |
| Acceptance | 3.69 (1.24) | 3.97 (1.14) | −1.99 | 3.87 (1.18) | 3.87 (1.11) | −0.18 | 0.86 | −1.15 | 0.25 | −1.11 | 0.27 | 4.01 | 0.26 | |
| Humor | 2.27 (1.46) | 2.07 (1.33) | −1.16 | 0.25 | 2.24 (1.33) | 1.92 (1.31) | −2.41 | −0.10 | 0.92 | −1.10 | 0.27 | 8.74 | 0.03 | |
| Turning to religion | 1.84 (1.79) | 2.00 (1.88) | −0.63 | 0.53 | 2.13 (1.89) | 2.59 (1.93) | −2.14 | −1.24 | 0.22 | −2.88 | 16.95 | |||
| Seeking emotional social support | 3.45 (1.54) | 3.94 (1.53) | −2.69 | 3.49 (1.55) | 4.09 (1.54) | −3.54 | −0.22 | 0.83 | −0.92 | 0.36 | 22.67 | |||
| Seeking instrumental social support | 3.48 (1.47) | 4.04 (1.45) | −3.26 | 3.52 (1.46) | 4.09 (1.40) | −3.63 | −0.14 | 0.89 | −0.25 | 0.80 | 25.24 | |||
| Denial | 1.42 (1.51) | 1.73 (1.46) | −2.02 | 1.08 (1.19) | 1.47 (1.33) | −2.81 | −1.50 | 0.13 | −1.66 | 0.10 | 14.66 | |||
| Substance use | 1.21 (1.49) | 0.79 (1.38) | −2.77 | 0.74 (1.12) | 0.84 (1.40) | −0.29 | 0.77 | −2.44 | −0.26 | 0.80 | 11.21 | |||
| Behavioral disengagement | 1.34 (1.28) | 1.50 (1.21) | −1.26 | 0.21 | 1.36 (1.25) | 1.42 (1.20) | −0.51 | 0.61 | −0.25 | 0.80 | −0.59 | 0.56 | 1.85 | 0.60 |
| Self-blame | 2.31 (1.51) | 2.79 (1.76) | −2.04 | 2.39 (1.38) | 2.92 (1.50) | −3.21 | −0.39 | 0.70 | −0.96 | 0.34 | 17.15 | |||
| Problem-focused Strategies | 4.22 (0.91) | 4.32 (0.92) | −1.22 | 0.22 | 4.20 (0.95) | 4.38 (0.94) | −1.64 | 0.10 | −0.25 | 0.80 | −0.09 | 0.93 | 4.14 | 0.25 |
| Emotional behaviors | 2.24 (1.09) | 2.56 (1.00) | −2.58 | 2.23 (0.98) | 2.72 (1.02) | −4.12 | −0.04 | 0.97 | −1.21 | 0.23 | 26.84 | |||
| * Test Dunn with Boferroni correction; Z, value of test statistic including tied ranks. | ||||||||||||||