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Gender-based differences in coping mechanism and its domains.
| Coping Mechanism | Male |
Female |
Statistical difference |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | t-testa | p-value | |
| Problem-oriented | 3.621 | 0.625 | 3.710 | 0.647 | −1.896 | 0.060 |
| Emotion-oriented | 3.052 | 0.681 | 3.261 | 0.695 | −2.213 | 0.029 |
| Action-oriented | 3.639 | 0.712 | 3.799 | 0.755 | −2.683 | 0.008 |
| Overall coping mechanism | 3.417 | 0.482 | 3.573 | 0.510 | −3.079 | 0.003 |
Negative (-ve) values imply that the latter group (females) coping mechanism more than the former group (males).
