...COPING STRATEGIES AS A FUNCTION OF GENDER AND EDUCATIONAL LEVEL 1 Running Head: COPING STRATEGIES AS A FUNCTION OF GENDER AND EDUCATIONAL LEVEL Coping Strategies as a Function of Gender and Educational Level of Public and Private University Students A project is submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. Submitted By Md. Humayun Kabir Exam Roll: 1701 Registration no HA- 1605 Session: 2007-2008 Department of psychology University of Dhaka Project supervisor Dr. Mahfuza Khanam Professor Department of Psychology University of Dhaka COPING STRATEGIES AS A FUNCTION OF GENDER AND EDUCATIONAL LEVEL 2 Abstract This study investigated the differences in the coping strategies adopted by male and female first year and fourth year students of public and private university. A total number of 120 students (60 male and 60 female), where 60 from public university and 60 from private university, age ranging from 17 to 23 years were selected as sample. Non-probability sampling technique and purposive field survey were used for collecting data. The Bangla version of the “Coping Scale” (Huque, 2004) was used for assessing coping strategies. Results revealed significant differences between males and females in terms of engagement in both adaptive and non-adaptive coping strategies. In addition, educational level and university type had no effect on adaptive...
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...Problem-focused coping strategies are coping efforts primarily aimed at directly changing or managing a threatening or harmful stressor. In Ch. 8, a problem-focused coping example would be self-care. By taking care of your health, you are able to make an impact on your stress level. In order to keep stress levels under your control, it is important that you treat yourself the way you deserve to feel. In other words, nurture yourself. Another example is eating the right kinds of food, as well as amount. Our bodies need to make many nutrients to survive. When neglected, some of us develop unhealthy habits connecting stress and food. Instead of filling up your hunger, this type of eating has to do with immediate gratification and escape from stress. As a result, one must not give in to the bad temptation of food under such circumstances. Instead, by having more of complex carbohydrates, proteins, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin C, Choline, and fluids, one would experience less stress and find more happiness. In addition, sleeping right to reduce stress is another problem-focused coping strategy. The lack of sleep can lead to impairment of daytime functioning. Lack of sleep can also hinder your normal bodily functions as well. All of this caused additional stress to a person. So, good quality sleep is vitally important, which means one should be getting approximately 8 hours of sleep to feel rested. Organizing your time is another problem-focused coping strategy. By knowing...
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...The Legal Wives: Coping Strategies towards their Husbands’ Infidelity By: Arceo, S.L., Alamarez, A.B., Villena, J. & Yalung, C. Thesis Adviser: Ms. Editha Galura The aim of this study is to describe and identify the most common types of coping strategy used by wives who were affected by the infidelity of their partner. It also sought to provide demographic profiles of these wives. The researchers’ motivation of choosing this topic had been influenced by the everyday situation of people they knew who had experienced being separated to their husbands due to infidelity. Also, the media had contributed to their choice because nowadays, infidelity has been featured to many movies, television shows and social media sites. In this study, the researchers have employed a descriptive design. The participants involved in this research were 40 wives, age ranging from 25 to 65 years old and coming from different cities and towns of Pampanga, who have experienced infidelity of their husbands. Their sample was gathered through snowball sampling. For their theoretical framework, the researchers used the Lazarus model of stress and model of behavioral self-regulation. To quantify it, they used the Coping Orientation to Problem Experienced (COPE) inventory of Carver, Scheier, and Weintraub (1989). With the help of a professor, they have translated the inventory for their Filipino participants. They have also developed a demographic profile checklist. There were five variables in the...
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...people when I felt angry or depressed. 5. __X__ Got busy with other things to keep my mind off the problem. 6. __X__ Decided not to worry about it because everything would work out fine. 7. _____ Took things one step at a time. 8. _____ Read relevant material for solutions and considered several alternatives. 9. _____ Drew on my knowledge because I had a similar experience before. 10. __X__ Talked to a friend or relative to get advice on handling the problem. 11. _____ Talked with a professional person about ways to improve the situation. 12. __X__ Took some action to improve the situation. __4__ Total of X’s in first six coping strategies (these are strategies focused either on managing your emotions related to the stressful situation, or on avoiding the source of the stress). __2__ Total of X’s in second six coping strategies (these are strategies focused on the source of the problem and actively trying to resolve...
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...COPING MECHANISM Task-oriented / problem-focused coping Problem focused coping also referred to active coping involves controlling managing stress by directly altering situations Edward, 1999. It alters either the environment itself the environment interacts. This type reaction of coping is more stressor and it tends to be used by the people with high score on the big fire personality super factor conscientiousness Watson & Hubbar, 1996. Emotion-oriented / emotion-focused coping In contrast, emotion coping strategies involves the individual’s attempts to regulate emotional responses to, and decrease the effects of a stressful situation Edwards, 1999. This coping strategy can change a person’s emotional response to the stressor. This type of coping usually decreases arousal. People are likely to adopt emotion-focused coping itself and so they must alter their perception of, or responses to, the stressors. Studies with male participants have indicated that those perceiving less control over events are less likely to use problem-focused strategies involving direct actions and more likely to use emotion-focused strategies such as distraction and emotion support David&Sals, 1999. If he doesn’t think anything he does at work ultimately affects whether he gets did off, he is less likely to use active coping strategies. Another type of emotion-focused is venting. Penne baker, 1989 asked a group of college students to write for twenty (20) minutes, a day of for four (4)...
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...Cluster Analysis of College Students Coping With Stress Jeanette Meadows Professor: Guy Vitaglione Psychology of Adjustment March 3, 2013 The article I’ll be discussing is Coping Profiles and Psychological Distress: A Cluster Analysis which was written by Chris Eisenbarth a professor at Weber State University. Professor Eisenbarth used cluster analysis which is a statistical method used to group variables or observations into strongly mutually related subgroups. The purpose of the article is to explain how college students deal with stress and how combining coping skills can be useful in reducing stress. Coping is all of the different things we do to try and manage the stress we deal with from problems and issues that happen in our lives. People cope with stress in their own way. Some people focus on what is causing them to be stressed out while other people may express how they feel rather forcefully and then others may deal with the stress by finding someone to talk to. Eisenbarth used college students because there is no denying that rising tuition, class workload and worrying about finding a job after graduation can be pretty stressful. Both male and female subjects were used in this study. The majority of the subjects in the study...
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...articles. The paper is an APA format and has utilized ten sources. Annotated Bibliography Thesis statement The study of emotional regulation has in the past decades gained momentum in the field of psychology. This upsurge is because of the realization that emotion regulation is very important in the development of psychological outcome. Several strategies have been mentioned by different scholars (Carver and Scheiner, 1998; Frydenberg, 2008; Gross, 1998). However, the two most common strategies used are Expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal (Bebko, Franconeri, Ochsner, & Chiao 2011). According to Gross & John (2003) “Expressive suppression, a response-focused strategy, refers to the inhibition of external cues to one’s internal emotional state (e.g., facial expression), while cognitive reappraisal, an antecedent-focused strategy, involves “construing a potentially emotion-eliciting situation in a way that changes its emotional impact” (p.349). In simple terms, cognitive reappraisal is a strategy that involves changing our thoughts so as to reduce the emotional impact of a situation while expressive suppression involves inhibiting any emotional expression we may have. The emotion regulation strategies are known to differ and to have different consequences. There are those that are considered beneficial while others are considered harmful (Goldin, McRae,...
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...Stress Stress is the body's reaction to a change that requires a physStress is a feeling that's created when we react to particular events. It's the body's way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness.ical, mental or emotional adjustment or response. internal stress is what you experience inside your body. its your changing of your emotions and how your body reacts to stress. internal stress could be emotional stress, and physical stress were you feel like you are not capable of doing anything,were previously easy tasks are now difficult tasks Survival Stress - You may have heard the phrase "fight or flight" before. This is a common response to danger in all people and animals. When you are afraid that someone or something may physically hurt you, your body naturally responds with a burst of energy so that you will be better able to survive the dangerous situation (fight) or escape it all together (flight). This is survival stress. Internal Stress - Have you ever caught yourself worrying about things you can do nothing about or worrying for no reason at all? This is internal stress and it is one of the most important kinds of stress to understand and manage. Internal stress is when people make themselves stressed. This often happens when we worry about things we can't control or put ourselves in situations we know will cause us stress. Some people become addicted to the kind of hurried, tense...
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...COPING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH YEAR STUDENTS DURING EXAMINATIONS IN SANTA ROSA SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL YEAR 2011-2011 A thesis presented to the faculty of Polytechnic University of the Philippines In partial fulfillment of all the requirements on RH 630 Research Seminar I Master in Educational Management By Ms. Jesusa G. Habig Summer 2011 Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction In schools, every student guaranteed to have tests. Unfortunately, many students do not handle the stress taking exams well. Despite what some people might think, all stress is not bad. How students cope with stress is different story. If the student is able to take exam stress, feeling and forcing oneself to act in a positive way, such as studying effectively, stress can be good. Not coping well with exam stress however can make attending school difficult. Learned resourcefulness theory suggests that people high in resourcefulness can minimize the negative effect of stress on their performance, therefore they can do better than less resourceful individuals under stressful conditions (Rosenhaum, 1990). The purpose of this study is to determine the coping strategies of fourth year high school students of Santa Rosa Science and Technology High School during examinations and to investigate the effects of coping strategies on students’ satisfaction and academic achievement. It will help students and teachers have a satisfying teaching and learning relationship. ...
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...Burnout has severe negative consequences on nurses. (Cimoitti et al., 2012). Therefore creating coping strategies and solutions to this problem is urgent and necessary through nursing management, organization and leadership at all levels, development of nurse practice environment, stress reduction interventions, lifestyle, emotional intelligence and self-awareness and problem focused and emotion focused coping strategies (Ndawula, 2016). Nursing management, organization, and leadership at all levels Good leadership and management have been shown to alleviate stress in the health care system (Wright, 2014). Nursing managers and organizations have the responsibility for reviewing the high requirements for nurses and providing resources...
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...COPING RESPONSE STRATEGY DURING STRESS NAME INSTITUTION Stress management is quite vital since it equips us with thoughts or actions designed to resolve or mitigate a problematic situation. Coping with stress is not a fixed attribute, but usually the dynamic capacity to apply effective methods to control, avoid or prevent distress. It is a method that involves appraisal and reaction. Evidently; individuals cope with stress in different ways depending mostly on the circumstances, the type of stressors and the particular individual. (Barkway, 2013). According to Lazarus, Emotion focused and problem focused are two types of coping mechanism that come in hand during stressful situations. Emotional focused concentrates more on reduction of the negative emotional response allied with stress such fear, anxiety, depression, excitement, frustration and embarrassment. This type of coping strategy only applies when the individual is not able to control the stressor. On the other hand, problem focused is more practical and targets the stressor in a practical approach thereby handling the problem. (Lazarus et all, 1984) In my situation mostly I find that I use more of the problem focused coping because the strategy removes the stressor and establishes mechanisms that eliminate source of the problem thereby providing a permanent therapy to the prevailing situation. (Barkway, 2013). I think from a personal perspective coping with stress is not a fixed attribute hence a lot of variance to extend...
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...Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most frequent psychiatric disorders of childhood. In fact, having a child with ADHD is correlated with significant increases in the amount of stress that parents experience. It was hypothesized that coping strategies would be different between mothers of children with/without ADHD. The purpose of this study was to determine whether coping strategies differ in the two mother groups. Fifty Iranian mothers of children aged between 6 to 12 participated in this study (25 mothers of children with ADHD and 25 mothers of children without ADHD). For assessing coping strategies, ways of coping questionnaire (WOCQ) by Folkman and Lazarus (1988) was administered on subjects. T. test was used for analyzing data. Our data show only one of the coping strategies- problem solving- employed were significantly different between two groups. This strategy was more commonly used among mothers of children without ADHD. Key words: ADHD, Coping Strategies, Mothers. INTRODUCTION Attention- Deficit/ hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects 3-5% of children before age 7 and is characterized by difficulties in controlling impulsive and hyperactive behaviors and/ or paying attention (Mitchell, 2006). This constellation of symptoms not only has a negative impact on the child’s life by creating difficulties in school and peer relations, but also is associated with difficulties within the home. In fact, having a child with ADHD is correlated with significant...
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...DISCUSS THE POSITIVE COPING STRATEGIES THAT COULD BE USED BY THE STUDENT NURSE TO COPE WITH STRESS. The following assignment will utilise academic literature to highlight positive coping mechanisms related to stress. The author will then reflect on personal coping strategies. The Health and Safety Executive (2007) defines stress as the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other demands required of them. The Royal College of Nursing (2007) describes stress as any factor that threatens physical health or causes the human body to function adversely. To explain further constant stress will affect the bodies’ balance of hormones. The term ‘work related stress’ can be defined as a result of work demands exceeding the person’s capacity and capability to cope. Health and Safety Executive (2011). Stress in the workplace could be a result of many factors, time management and poor organisational skills can contribute. Demands of work could also lead to a lack of family time and time for recreation and the refusal of additional work and a lack of assertiveness may also have an impact. According to the Royal College of Nursing (2011) nursing is one of the professions that is affected by stress. An explanation for this statement could be the long hours associated with the profession, staff shortages and the insecurity of the job. A student nurse has the added pressure of being accepted as part of the team and ‘fitting’ in. Vulnerable groups for instance children...
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...thinking coping, anxiety and depression as predictors of coursework stress. ANN-MARIE ROY Contact: aroy11@caledonian.ac.uk COURSEWORK STRESS STUDY ANN-MARIE ROY ABSTRACT The aim of the present study was to investigate students’ perceived university coursework stress and whether the use of wishful thinking or problem-focused coping was related to anxiety and depression levels. The method of investigation was a four-part questionnaire. Participants were 81 Glasgow Caledonian University students. There were two hypotheses: 1) problem solving copers will score lower on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale. 2) Those high in perceived coursework stress and who reveal wishful thinking strategies will have higher anxiety and depression scores. A multiple regression revealed partial support for both hypotheses – problem strategies had no relationship to coursework stress but wishful thinking and anxiety were both positive predictors of stress; however, contrary to hypothesis 2 depression revealed a strong negative association with stress. The conclusion from this study is that wishful thinkers are also more likely to be anxious; problem focused copers are not anxious, depressed or stressed; stressed students do not suffer from depression. The last finding is possibly because coursework stress is a transient stressor not severe enough to trigger depression. 2 COURSEWORK STRESS STUDY ANN-MARIE ROY INTRODUCTION Why study stress? Bartlett (1998) points out there...
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...Stress–Essay on definitions & coping strategies By Karyn Krawford 08/08 Introduction: Weiten et al (2009) propose that stress is an epidemic in the 21st century that commonly affects all of us on a daily basis, when considering minor stress from environmental conditions such as noise and pollution. Even though time saving gadgets and self help tools have increased substantially in the 20th century and people have more control over their lives, there is an increase of anxiety and people have less free time. “We will define stress as any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one’s well-being and thereby tax one’s coping abilities”. (Pg 71). For example a person can no longer meet external demands such as work or relationships because they feel they do not have the resources to cope. Chronic stress is in the eye of the beholder. Stress is of such concern that the UK now recognises ‘National Stress Awareness Day’ (http://www.nationalstressawarenessday.co.uk). What is Stress? 1. Stress is defined firstly by an event. Our primary appraisal of the event is conducted and then a secondary appraisal of available coping resources. If the event taxes resources that are often not available it is considered a 'stressor'. For example a person perceived to be experiencing stress could have problems with the resource; maintaining peace of mind. 2. Stress types - There are acute (short-term) and chronic (long- term)...
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