This study examined use of control, escape coping, and restructuring responses of survivors among hospital-based nursing staff who had survived significant hospital restructuring and downsizing. Four restructuring responses of survivors proposed by Mishra and Spreitzer in 1998 were considered: hopeful, obliging, cynical, and fearful. Data were collected from 744 nursing staff by questionnaire. Multiple regression analyses indicated greater use of active coping by more hopeful and more obliging survivors and greater use of escape coping by more cynical survivors.
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