01396nas a2200193   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001100118653002600129653002100155100002500176700003400201245009700235300001000332490000600342520082600348022001401174020001401188       2002                            d  c07/2002bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aCoping10aAnxiety (state-trait)10aEating disorders1 aMaría Valdés Díaz1 aMª del Carmen Arroyo Serrano00aCoping Strategies and anxiety: preliminary survey on a sample of women with eating disorders  a49-580 v83 aThe coping strategies are studied and the relationship between levels of anxiety that show people with eating disorders. Among instruments of assessment applied to a sample of 30 women (10 with anorexia and 20 with bulimia), appear the STAI of Spielberger and cols (1982) and the Ways of Coping Questionnaire of Lazarus and Folkman (1986). The results reveal the presence of high level in the dimension Anxiety-State of mind in the group with bulimia. Also, it has been found that when this group confronts the disorder, it uses preferently the avoidance and escape coping in contrast to the group of anorexics who characterizes by looking for more social support and reevaluating positively the situation. The analysis of the facts shows a direct association between the avoidance coping and the dimension anxiety-trait.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437