Coping strategies and stress symptoms in adolescence
Coping strategies are directed towards the reduction of stress, involving physical or emotional reactions. The overall aim of this study was to identify coping strategies among adolescents exposed to stressful events. Two-hundred and twenty adolescents, ages of 12 and 18 years, male and female, stud...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2010 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMPINAS) |
| Repositorio: | Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br:article/7122 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/7122 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Adolescência Estratégias de enfrentamento Stress Adolescence Coping strategies |
| Resumo: | Coping strategies are directed towards the reduction of stress, involving physical or emotional reactions. The overall aim of this study was to identify coping strategies among adolescents exposed to stressful events. Two-hundred and twenty adolescents, ages of 12 and 18 years, male and female, studying in a public school in Porto Alegre (RS), took part of this research. The instruments used were the Coping StrategiesInventory, the Child Stress Scale and school grades. It was found that the coping strategies most frequently employed were Self-control, Withdrawal and Escape-Avoidance. Amongst adolescents with the greatest number of stress-related symptoms, the most frequent coping strategies were Escape-Avoidance, Social Support, Confrontation and Withdrawal. |
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