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Everything about Coping

Strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions

Coping refers to the application of coping mechanisms, conscious and unconscious cognitions that people use to manage unpleasant emotions, stress, and anxiety. Coping mechanisms can be adaptive, meaning that they successfully improve the well-being of the person applying them, or maladaptive, meaning they may manage a specific unpleasant emotion, but at the expense of other aspects of one's mental and/or physical health. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: CopingA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Challenges of photocatalysis and their coping strategiesInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The hidden persuadersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Assessing coping strategies: A theoretically based approach.Cited 7,951 times
  5. Go sideways: Emotional approach copingA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Defence mechanismA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.

Noun The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.

Noun The process of clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

Verb present participle and gerund of cope

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Theories of coping
  2. Historical psychoanalytic theories
  3. Gender differences
  4. Physiological basis

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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