ASSESSMENT OF COPING STRATEGIES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT IN CHILDREN
Journal: Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century (Vol.3, No. 1)Publication Date: 2012-07-12
Authors : Francisco Manuel Morales Rodríguez;
Page : 67-75
Keywords : assessment; coping strategies; maladjustment; middle-childhood;
Abstract
The study of coping strategies in children and adolescents is a topic in line with the study of a healthy development, as the very fact of having coping skills serves as a guarantee for a healthy lifestyle and quality of life. The general aim is the prediction of children coping (coping strategies used by students of elementary education, and in relation to four types of stressors known as the school, family, peer interaction and health) in terms of the impact of varying stress, coping, School, clinical and social maladjustment. Participants were 402 students, ranging from 9 to 12 years old. Results show that that the variable coping with the ACS, stress and clinical maladjustment predict, with different impact, coping strategy employed by children. This information attempts to be useful in the applied Educational.
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