Examining the relationship of imagination mechanism with depression over coping skills

It's aimed to investigate the relatıonship between imaging mechanism and depression over coping skills in traumatized people. This investigation's done on total of 200 volunteer convicts consisting of 152 men and 48 women, from 10.07.2018 to 30.07.2018 dates, in Seydikemer Esen Open and Closed T Type Prison located in Fethiye. The data were obtained by face to face interviews from each of the participants. In order to obtain the data, "Imagination Scale Form", "Coping Skills Scale form" and "Beck Depression Inventory Form" were used beside a sociodemographic data form prepared by the investigator. Descriptive analyzes, regression-based mediation analysis and cross-table and frequency analyzes were performed for the analysis of the research. According to the results of the correlation analysis, depression showed a high and inverse relationship with imaging mechanisms and coping skills. There was a high and positive relationship between imaging mechanism and coping skills. In the mediation analysis, the relationship between depression scores and imaging scale scores were significant in the presence of coping skills scores. The β value we found in the first step on the depression scores of the imagery scores was higher then this value in the fourth step. This shows that coping skills scale scores have a partial mediating effect.