Strategies For Coping With Stress

Coping strategies

A coping strategy is a specific method, behavioural or psychological, that people use to manage or reduce the stress produced by a stressor. 

A coping strategy is considered to have context-specific effectiveness when there is a match or ‘good fit’ between the coping strategy that is used and the stressful situation. 

Coping flexibility to refers to the ability to effectively modify or adjust one’s coping strategies according to the demands of different stressful situations.

Exercise is physical activity that is usually planned and performed to improve or maintain one’s physical condition.

Approach coping strategies involve efforts to confront a stressor and deal directly with it and its effects.

Avoidant coping strategies involve efforts that evade a stressor and deal indirectly with it and its effects.