Meaning of coping in English

(Definition of coping from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of coping

coping
The correlation coefficients between negative coping strategies and symptoms were higher than those between positive coping strategies and symptoms.
An evaluation of peer coping-skills training for childhood aggression.
Our second test of the development of coping assessed relations between the adolescent trajectories of coping and active, avoidant, and cognitive coping in young adulthood.
As with resilience, coping capacity, and personality in general, maladaptation and, ultimately, disorder may also be presumed to develop.
It is possible that persons who have more symptoms start using more negative coping strategies.
Thus, children with high fear and/or good attention should be most likely to screen coping options in terms of their personal standards.
Positive coping strategies - albeit not associated with symptoms - may be stronger associated with other dimensions of well-being.
The authors find evidence for two orthogonal dimensions separating security of attachment from what they term the attachment ' strategy ' for coping with interpersonal difficulties.
Having a large network of family and friends can have a positive impact on the cancer journey and assists in effective coping.
These results echo the findings of our previous qualitative research, with the simultaneous existence of suffering, coping, and meaning present in this group.
Coping with stressful events in older children and adolescents.
To what extent are deprived populations already using self-help as a coping strategy?
The protective role of coping and social resources for depressive symptoms among young adolescents.
The idea that coping capability can affect illness progression gives women the welcome sense of having some control over their breast cancer.
Beliefs about voices and their effects on coping strategies.
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Translations of coping

in Chinese (Traditional)
牆頂, 應對難題|處理麻煩…
in Chinese (Simplified)
墙顶, 应对难题|处理麻烦…
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