چکیده (انگلیسی):

Purpose of the present study was to compare resiliency, styles of coping with stress, alexithymia
and fear of negative evaluation in people suffering from MS and healthy people. To this end, 50 women
and men suffering from MS, chosen based on convenience sampling, were evaluated by resiliency scale,
short form scale on coping with stressful situations, Toronto alexithymia scale and fear of negative
evaluation scale. Results of T-test for independent samples showed that between the participating patient
and healthy groups, there is a significant difference only in emotion-oriented coping style dimension. Also,
multivariate variance analysis showed that the progressive-relapsing group of patients has acquired higher
scores for difficulty identifying feeling compared to the benign, relapsing-remitting, primary progressive
and secondary progressive patients. Progressive-relapsing group of patients has also acquired higher
scores in alexithymia variable compared to the benign group patients. Also, patients of relapsing-remitting
type has acquired higher scores in fear of negative evaluation compared to the progressive-relapsing
patients. Benign group patients has acquired higher scores in emotion-oriented coping style compared to
primary progressive and progressive-relapsing group patients.