coping
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Coping refers to the application of coping mechanisms, conscious and unconscious cognitions that people use to manage unpleasant emotions, stress and anxiety. Coping mechanisms can be adaptive, meaning that they successfully improve the well-being of the person applying them, or maladaptive, meaning they may manage a specific unpleasant emotion, but at the expense of other aspects of one's mental and/or physical health. == Theories of coping == Hundreds of coping strategies have been proposed to explain how people manage stress. However, no universal classification system has been agreed upon.
Research
94,603 papers- Coping strategies and social support in nursing students during clinical practice: A scoping review.Nursing open · 2024
- Understanding burnout in nurses: identification and coping strategies.British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing) · 2025
- Coping in patients with pancreatic cancer: a scoping review and narrative synthesis.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2024
- Coping target checklist for home-based older adults living with disabilities and their spousal caregivers.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · 2024
- Nurse managers coping strategies for crisis management: qualitative systematic review.Enfermeria clinica · 2024
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23 sectionsContents
- Theories of coping
- Appraisal-focused coping strategies
- Adaptive behavioral coping strategies
- Emotion-focused coping strategies
- Health theory of coping
- Reactive and proactive coping
- Social coping
- Humor
- {{anchor|Negative}}Negative techniques (maladaptive coping or non-coping)
- Further examples
- Coping with Grief
- Historical psychoanalytic theories
- Otto Fenichel
- Karen Horney
- Heinz Hartmann
- Object relations
- Gender differences
- Physiological basis
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Coping refers to the application of coping mechanisms, conscious and unconscious cognitions that people use to manage unpleasant emotions, stress and anxiety. Coping mechanisms can be adaptive, meaning that they successfully improve the well-being of the person applying them, or maladaptive, meaning they may manage a specific unpleasant emotion, but at the expense of other aspects of one's mental and/or physical health. == Theories of coping == Hundreds of coping strategies have been proposed to explain how people manage stress. However, no universal classification system has been agreed upon. Researchers have grouped coping responses through rational, empirical (factor-analytic), or hybrid approaches.
Early work by Folkman and Lazarus categorized coping into four main types: Problem-focused coping Emotion-focused coping Support-seeking coping Meaning-making coping