1. COPING RESOURCES, STRATEGIES & BEHAVIOUR
Use various skills to manage the difficulties in life.
Skills
Behavior
Preference

2. Coping Resources
A sets of factors (internal & external) will aid you in meeting daily life demand in a resilient manner
It can be material (physical or social) and/or psychological possessed by person.
Coping used to manage, reduce, eliminate stress

3. Types of Coping Resources
Personal coping
Affluent, healthy, capable, optimistic more resourceful
Perceived competence is crucial
2. Social coping
Social support can assist coping
3. Cognitive – belief system
4. Values
5. Religion
6. Monetary
7. Good neighbors
* We can identify coping resources using Coping Resourece Inventory (CRI)

4. Coping Strategies
Any effort, positive or negative that we perform to reduce stress level felt or to manage stressors.
Have a good coping resource but don’t have strategy, there is higher tendency will not be able to manage stress effectively

5. Function of Coping Strategies
Managing the problem causing stress
Governing emotions relating to those stressor

6. Coping Strategies 1. Problem solving vs emotion focused coping
2. Active vs avoidant coping
3. Task, emotion vs Avoidant oriented

7. Coping Behavior
Protect people from being psychologically harmed by problematic social experiences
Serves a protective function :
- by eliminating or modifying stressful condition
By perceptually controlling the meaning of the stressor
- By keeping emotional consequences in bounds

8. Temporal Aspect of Coping
5 situation that create temporal context:
a. Preventive coping
b. Anticipatory coping
c. Dynamic coping
d. Reactive coping
e. Residual coping