Mediating effect of coping styles on the relationship between self-efficacy and self-management among young patients with type 2 diabetes
HE Qiao
ZHAO Fang
LIU Yu
GUO Hong
SHEN Yi-na
OU Meng-xian
Abstract：Objective To explore the mediating effect of coping styles on the relationship between self-efficacy and self-management among young patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM).Methods A total of 227 young patients with T2DM from a 3A-level hospital were investigated with the medical coping modes questionnaire,self-efficacy for diabetes scale and the summary of diabetes self-care activities.Results The score of facing coping style in young patients with T2DM was lower than the norm,the scores of avoidance and resignation were higher than the norm (P＜0.01),the average score of self-efficacy was (7.16± 1.73),which was in the middle level,and the average score of self-management was (3.32±1.29),which was in low level.The facing coping style was positively correlated with self-efficacy and self-management (P＜0.01).The direct effect coefficient of diabetes self-efficacy for self-management was 0.337,the indirect effect coefficient was 0.046,while the total effect coefficient was 0.383.Conclusion Facing coping style and diabetes self-efficacy have predictive roles on self-management among young patients with T2DM,and facing coping style has a mediating effect between self-efficacy and self-management.
Keywords：type 2 diabetes mellitusyoung patientscoping styleself-efficacyself-management
Publication Date：2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 263-267 )