TY - JOUR JF - ijpn JO - IJPN VL - 3 IS - 1 PY - 2015 Y1 - 2015/5/01 TI - The relationship between optimism with prenatal coping strategies TT - رابطه خوش بینی با راهبردهای مقابله با استرس بارداری N2 - Introduction: However pregnancy is Seems a Pleasure time of women`s life, but the physiologic changes during this time has caused high levels of stress in the mothers. Since optimism is one of the most important personality factors in choosing coping strategies to overcome the challenges created by pregnancy, thus the present study was performed to investigate the relationship between optimism and prenatal coping strategies. Methods: This correlational-descriptive study was carried out in 500 pregnant women referring to health centers of Mashhad in 2014 were selected based on random sampling method. Instruments include: Life orientation test- Revised scale and the Revised Prenatal Coping Inventory. Data were analyzed by SPSS-16 software using descriptive statistics, spearman correlation and regression at the significant level of p SP - 70 EP - 83 AU - Azhari, S AU - Sarani, A AU - Mazlom, SR AU - Aghamohammadian Sherbaf, HM AD - Department in Midwifery, faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran KW - Pregnancy KW - stress KW - Prenatal Coping Inventory KW - coping KW - optimism UR - http://ijpn.ir/article-1-512-en.html ER -