Surprisingly, average copers did not differ significantly from dysfunctional copers on total scores.
Conversely, average copers did not significantly differ in outcomes total scores from adaptive copers.
They grouped different coping profiles using a factor analytic approach and found four coping profiles: approachers' avoiders' high generic
copers' and low generic
copers'.
Laxity, instability, and functional outcome after ACL injury:
copers versus non-copers.
Thus the current results may have only captured the fear of movement/re-injury of a single subgroup of CAI while other subgroups may have increased and/or decreased TSK scores relative to
copers. Finally, the cultural significance assigned to lateral ankle sprains may also have influenced the current results.
"Dependent
Copers" included 135 patients (20%) who disengaged from activities and catastrophized about pain.
The former researchers, however, reported some evidence for a reversal of buffering, in which high
copers showed worse outcomes as stress increased.
Copers are oriented to both children and career, but have lower paying jobs than achievers.
"
Copers? What are
copers?" --Josh Matthews, asking a valid question
What's lame: cardboard wallets, the punk rock image, skate lawyers, the sensitive artist image, the heavy metal image,
copers, beer, mediocre skateboarding online, marijuana, banks, humongous t-shirts, cruiser boards, jackets with no shirt under them, I-don't-care attitudes, talking crap, featured-artist soda bottles, courtroom sketch artists for every session, cute overload, the French dandy image, '80s yuppie image, Daniel Boone style, bonnets, those corn-cob pipes that are filled with Big League Chew, gigantic underwear, frontside flips, aprons with nothing underneath, fasting for no good reason, bonnet sponsors, -the red top rumor.
Twenty years ago I did have
copers, Indy ones, when they first came out.
So you couldn't afford
copers, but would you have ridden them if you could?
I didn't really need them since the coping on the ramp was made of wood but everybody used
copers, it was just the thing to do.
Chicken and Kelly didn't want people to wreck the coping at their pools so they made people wear
copers for a long time.
