• Bozena Spila, Marta Makara, Maria Chuchra, and Beata Pawłowska.
• Z Katedry i Kliniki Psychiatrii AM w Lublinie.
• Psychiatr Pol. 2005 Jan 1;39(1):115-23.

AimThe aim of the paper is to study the differences between the mentally ill and a control group correlated with stressful live events and its connection with a sense of coherence.MethodsThe group of 108 people, 49 psychiatric patients and 64 people without any mental disorders, were examined with the Hospital Anxiety-Depression Scale, Early Trauma Inventory, Social Readjustment Scale and the Sense of Coherence Scale.ResultsPatients with mental disorders had a significantly higher occurrence of stressful psychosocial factors during the last year, and also they were exposed to traumatic events in childhood more frequently than the control group. The sense of coherence, as a measurement of resources in coping with stress, was significantly lower in the case of the psychiatric patients. Statistically significant dependence of anxiety and depression symptoms which were reported by patients with mental disorders with abuses which were experienced in childhood highly correlated with a sense of coherence in the group of psychiatric patients.ConclusionsPsychiatric patients experienced stressful life events in childhood more frequently, which had to do with a sense of coherence as measure of 'resistance' resources to cope with stressful events.

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