Influences of Social Supporting and Coping Style on Mental Health in Patients with Somatization Disorder

Objective: To explore the influences of social supporting and coping style on mental status in patients with somatization disorder.Methods: 56 somatization disorder patients and 50 normal controllers were evaluated with Symptoms Checklist-90(SCL-90)、 Social Supporting Rating Scale(SSRS)、 Trait Coping Style Questionnaire(TCSQ).Results: ①All the factor's scores and the total scores of SCL-90 except hostility in somatization disorder patients were higher than those in the control group.②Compared with the normal controllers,somatization disorder patients had lower total and subjective social supporting scores,and they took more negative coping.③The patients' total and subjective social supporting mean scores had negative correlation with the scores of the total and all factors except anxiety,fear and paranoid of SCL-90;their objective social supporting score had negative correlation with the scores of obsess-compelled,sensitivity and paranoid of SCL-90.The negative coping style had positive correlation with the scores of the total and all factors of SCL-90.Conclusion: Patients with somatization disorder have more mental problems.Lacked social supporting and negative coping style can influence on their mental status.