Fantasy Proneness and Coping

Sammanfattning: This study probed a possible relationship between fantasy proneness and several ways of coping; task oriented, emotion oriented and avoidance oriented, and their connection with mental and physical health. The participants consisted mainly of university students (N = 51) and were given three scales; the Creative Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ; Merckelbach, Horselenberg, & Muris, 2001), the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS; Endler & Parker, 1999) and a short version of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI; Ruipérez, Ibáñez, Lorente, Moro, & Ortet, 2001). Fantasy proneness did not show any correlation with coping, but it did correlate positively with somatization and hostility/aggressivity on the BSI. Emotion oriented coping correlated positively with maladaptive factors on the BSI, and negatively with age.