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    Personality and Coping

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    DIFFERENCES IN COPING 174569 Abstract The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between personality and coping style. The study selected four predetermined groups of personality comprising of‚ high neuroticism group‚ low neuroticism group‚ high extraversion group‚ and low extraversion group from 386 undergraduate psychology students. Personality was assessed using the International Personality Item Pool (Goldberg‚ 1999). The study then measured which of two coping styles each personality

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    Coping With PTSD

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    like Hurricane Katrina. These events can induce extreme levels of stress when mentioned. Thousands of people in the United States alone have PTSD‚ and many do not know any positive ways to cope with their condition. People having problems coping with their traumatic event will use certain defense mechanisms‚ from repression to substance abuse‚ tailspin into alcoholism‚ and/or avoid anything that person

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    Stress and Coping

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    pingDiscuss physiological‚ psychological and social aspects of stress Stress and coping are two terms often used together. Coping is defined as efforts to deal with a threat in order to remove it or diminish its impact on the person. According to Sarafino (1994)‚ stress arises when people perceive a discrepancy between the demands of a situation and their perception of their own resources. This perception may be realistic but it may also be unrealistic. What matters is the individuals’ own evaluation

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    Maladaptive Coping

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    THE ASSOCIATION OF ADOLESCENT SMOKING WITH STRESS AND COPING IN PRETORIA HIGH SCHOOLS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Oscar Reno O’Hara A research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences‚ University of the Witwatersrand‚ Johannesburg‚ in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health (Health Policy and Management). Johannesburg‚ 2008.                      DECLARATION I declare that this research report is my own unaided work. It is being submitted for

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    Stress and Coping

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    Stress and Coping Stress is the combination of physiological‚ psychological and behavioural effects when people are responding to any challenges or threatening situations. Long term stress reduced the capacity of our body to adapt. Stress influence conception‚ development and result of an illness. The source of stress has to change or adapt to balance our body system (Potter & Perry‚ 1997). Overton (2005) illustrates a good example that when our body is stressed due to the exposure

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    Stress Coping

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    Running Head: STRESS COPING STRATEGIES IN YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN Stress coping strategies in young men and women Manahil Nauman Szabist University Abstract This study uses a qualitative method of design. It aims to find out the different coping strategies in men and women of ages 18-25. Brief Cope Self-Reporting Questionnaires were used and there was a total pf 166 participants (83 males and 83 females). The investigator collected the data in an excel sheet where the means for the 14 subscales

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    Coping with Methuselah

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    Coping with Methuselah Lu’Ciana S. Knight Eng./215 Date February 26‚ 2013 Tracy A. Boothe Coping with Methuselah Methuselah was a patriarch of the Bible who was said to have lived for 969 years. In the essay “Coping with Methuselah” they discuss the possibility of manipulating the genetics that shape living beings. Also‚ with the declining rate of human mortality year after year we will soon see humans living well in to a century or more. With this rise in life span also comes a rise in

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    If I could work with myself‚ I would build on the strengths that I currently had to build my resiliency. First I would have identified the perceived problem‚ which was me having difficulties adjusting to my friend moving‚ which caused me to no longer have any friends in the neighborhood. Next‚ I would identify the influences that are contributing to my perceived problem. The contributing factors are coming home from school and being lonely and having no one to play with on the weekends‚ which reminds

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    stress and coping

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    those mimicking a fake or even no smile. The General Adaptation Syndrome indicated that our body would pass through the alarm stage by mobilizing the body to the stage of resistance by coping with the threats and restoring equilibrium (Selye‚ 1976). According to the theory of ‘Fight and Flight’‚ when we are coping with stress‚ our body would send physiological response to mobilize the organism to attack the possible threat or to flee. During the process‚ heartbeat‚ perspiration and respiration rate

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    Coping with Fear

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    Coping with Fear It is a part of human nature to learn and adopt new ideas. According to Charles Darwin‚ humans continuously have been putting utmost efforts into understanding our environment and nature in order to survive and prevail on earth. It seems clear that we have invented and created countless notions and new technologies throughout history. By studying and understanding‚ we have overcome many stumbling blocks of our ancestors and learned several strategies of coping with the fear of

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