en Relationships between Coping Strategies and the Severity of PTSD in Iranian Veterans of the Iran-Iraq War عمومى General پژوهشي Research The aim of this study was to study the relationships between coping strategies and the severity of PTSD. Subjects were 50 treatment seeking Iranian veterans who had experienced war trauma at least once during their military services. Two instruments were used, including:Ways of Coping Questionnaire (Lazarus and Folkman, 1985) andStructured Interview for PTSD (SIP). Correlation coefficients were computed between various coping strategies and the PTSD severity scores. Results indicated that seeking social support, positive reappraisal, planful-problem solving, and self-controlling strategies were negatively correlated to PTSD severity. Escape-avoidance, distancing, accepting responsibility and confronting coping were positively correlated to the severity of PTSD. Theoretical discussion and the applications of these results are represented coping strategies, PTSD severity, Iranian veterans 0 0 http://ijpb.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-39-8&slc_lang=en&sid=1 aghaye مرتضی نظیفی nevisandeh election آقای morteza nazifi نویسنده مسیول 1003194753284600516 1003194753284600516 No department of psychology university of tarbiat modarres department of psychology university of tarbiat modarres mohammad بهرام علی قنبری هاشم آبادی دکتر bahram ali ghanbari hashem abadi 1003194753284600517 1003194753284600517 No department of psychology ferdowsi university department of psychology ferdowsi university aghaye حسین شاره آقای hosein shareh 1003194753284600518 1003194753284600518 No department of clinical psychology iran university of medical sciences department of clinical psychology iran university of medical sciences