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Responses of random samples of 218 urban husband and wives and 202 rural husbands and wives were used to test the hypotheses that these two populations would use different coping strategies to deal with the stressors they faced in their different environments and that, based on Parsons and Bales' instrumentalexpressive dichotomy, women would use different strategies than men. Neither hypothesis was supported. However, rural respondents used each of the five coping strategies measured by F-COPES significantly more than did the urban respondents. This finding indicates that they put forth a greater effort to control their lives.
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