Abstract:
One hundred severe and persistent mentally ill clients receiving services from either of one of two mental health centers in east central Kansas completed questionnaire packets containing a Fear of Success Survey, Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations, and demographics form. The results of a stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that a model including fear of success and social diversion coping was most predictive of emergency service use during a two
year period, f(2,97) = 42.676, P < .001, B= .684. Those participants with high fear of success were found to be more likely to be recidivists (B2 = .657). Those who reported low use of social diversion as a coping style were also more likely to be recidivists (change in B= .027).
