Teen Coping

The Prevention Researcher, Volume 15, Number 4, 2008, Item# 154

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Adolescence and the accompanying transition to adulthood is a stressful period in life. It is a time when youth face a variety of new, potentially stressful, experiences, and a time when they are learning to be independent.

Coping describes the process through which people deal with the problems in their lives. By understanding how youth cope with stressful events, we can learn how to facilitate positive outcomes.

How youth cope depends on many different factors. It involves an interaction between youth and their environment, as well as the resources available to them. Obviously, individual differences play a role, however coping responses also depend on age and developmental stage, gender, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors.

This issue of The Prevention Researcher examines many of these factors. Additionally, it explores how schools can promote successful coping. The issue ends with an examination of the theory of Proactive Coping, which is distinguished from reactive, anticipatory, and preventive coping, and presented as a strategy to improve one’s quality of life.

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Articles in this issue:

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Adolescent Coping with Poverty-Related Stress

By Martha Wadsworth, Ph.D., Brian Wolff, M.A., Catherine DeCarlo Santiago, M.A., and Erica Moran, B.A.

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Adolescents Coping with Stress: Development and Diversity

By Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Ph.D., and Ellen Skinner, Ph.D.

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From Distress to Success: Developing a Coping Language and Programs for Adolescents

By Erica Frydenberg, Ph.D., Chelsea Eacott, DEdPsych, and Nicholas Clark, MEdPsych

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Identity as Coping: Assessing Youths’ Challenges and Opportunities for Success

By Margaret Beale Spencer, Ph.D., and Brian Tinsley, B.S.

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Reactive, Anticipatory, Preventive, and Proactive Coping: A Theoretical Distinction

By Ralf Schwarzer, Ph.D., and Aleksandra Luszczynska, Ph.D.

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