Table 6.

Numbers and percentages of men and women who answered that they used the strategies presented in the RCOPE “very much” associated with specific crisis experiences

Specific crisis experience		Positive RCOPE		Negative RCOPE
		Men	Women	Men	Women
Death of a child	Yes	2 (15.4)	4 (18.2)	4 (30.8)	9 (40.9)
Death of partner	Yes	0 (0.0)	2 (16.7)	2 (40.0)	2 (16.7)
Death of mother	Yes	7 (13.2)	13 (12.3)	8 (15.4)	13 (12.0)
Death of father	Yes	12 (14.0)	24 (15.5)	9 (10.6)	24 (15.5)
Life-threatening disease	Yes	4 (15.4)	12 (22.2)	6 (22.2)	9 (16.4)
Divorce of parents	Yes	26 (14.5)	39 (11.9)	15 (8.3)	28 (8.4)