Life events and strategies for coping with stress in the seventh grade schoolchildren
| Autor: | Milenović Miodrag, Memeti-Ademi Gentiana |
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| Jazyk: | Bosnian<br />English<br />Serbian |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Univerzitetska Misao, Vol 2019, Iss 18, Pp 41-53 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1451-3870 2560-4821 |
| DOI: | 10.5937/univmis1918041M |
| Popis: | Stressful life events can range from everyday frustrations and conflicts to real traumas that can have profound consequences upon adolescents such as death of a close person, parents' divorce or war occurrences, etc. What particular consequences would stressful life events have for psycho-physical state of an individual depends, to a large extent, upon the strategy he uses in a concrete stress situation (Lacković-Grgin, 2000). In this research project, conducted upon a sample of 100 of the seventh grade schoolchildren, a correlation between stress, measured by the Life Events Stress Scale - STRESS - D (Košta, Vulić-Prtorić, 2002) and individual strategies for overcoming them as expressed by the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist-Revision 1 (CCSC-R1) (Ayers, et al., 1996) is explored. The most stressful life events, in children's views, are physical changes due to growing up, death of a close cousin, accusation for something they have not done, elders' distrust and shaming before others, while the coping strategies are expressed through four factors, namely: active coping, distraction, avoidance of situation and support seeking. The statistical analysis has shown that the most important correlations are between a stressful event, death of a close cousin and active coping (r=.321; p |
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