Relationships between Coping Strategies and the Severity ofPTSD in Iranian Veterans of the Iran-Iraq War

The aim of this study was to study the relationships between coping strategiesand the severity of ptsd. subjects were 50 treatment seeking iranian veteranswho had experienced war trauma at least once during their military services. twoinstruments were used, including: ways of coping questionnaire (lazarus andfolkman, 1985) and structured interview for ptsd (sip). correlation coefficientswere computed between various coping strategies and the ptsd severity scores.results indicated that seeking social support, positive reappraisal, planful-problemsolving, and self-controlling strategies were negatively correlated to ptsdseverity. escape-avoidance, distancing, accepting responsibility and confrontingcoping were positively correlated to the severity of ptsd. theoretical discussionand the applications of these results are represented.