Coping strategy

Coping strategies are an internal regulatory mechanism of human behavior, or in other words, they are methods of psychological defense. The goal of coping is to balance the demands of the world and vital resources while maintaining health.

American psychologist Richard Lazarus identifies the following coping styles:

Confrontational coping. (Active, sometimes aggressive efforts to change the situation. It involves a certain degree of risk-taking, conflict, and impulsivity).
Distancing. (Cognitive efforts to separate from the situation and reduce its subjective significance by switching attention, detachment, devaluation, etc.)
Self-control: (Efforts to regulate one's feelings and actions, or complete suppression of emotions.)
Seeking social support: (Seeking informational, effective, and emotional support, sympathy, or advice from others).
Acceptance of responsibility: (Recognition of one's role in the problem with the concomitant theme of trying to solve it.)
Escape-avoidance. (Actions to quickly reduce the emotional pressure of the problem by running away, avoiding or ignoring the problem)
Problem-solving planning. (Problem-focused style, searching for rational efforts to change the situation, including an analytical approach to the problem.)
Positive reappraisal. (Focusing on the growth of one's own personality. Includes a religious component).

Sources:

Чаповська, Ольга Олександрівна. “КОПІНГ-СТРАТЕГІЯ ПОВЕДІНКИ ТА ПСИХОЛОГІЧНІ ЧИННИКИ ПОДОЛАННЯ СТРЕСУ ОСОБИСТІСТЮ”. Diss. КВНЗ «Вінницька академія неперервної освіти», 2020. Відтворенно з https://bit.ly/3EhI4hj

Claslyseum. “Копінг-стратегії. Поради для швидкого та проактивного подолання стресу” Відтворенно з: https://bit.ly/4hemjNH