Changes

Coping is defined as individual’s constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to handle person-environment transactions appraised as exceeding the available resources of an individual. Coping helps to regulate stressful emotions referred to as emotion-focused coping and to alter the stressful person-environment relation causing the stress described as problem-focused coping. Coping is process oriented, contextual and makes no a priori differentiation between bad and good coping mechanism (Lazarus, 1991).

Coping is defined as individual’s constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to handle person-environment transactions appraised as exceeding the available resources of an individual. Coping helps to regulate stressful emotions referred to as emotion-focused coping and to alter the stressful person-environment relation causing the stress described as problem-focused coping. Coping is process oriented, contextual and makes no a priori differentiation between bad and good coping mechanism (Lazarus, 1991).

==Diagram/schematic of theory==

==Diagram/schematic of theory==

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==Originating author(s)==

==Originating author(s)==

Joseph B. Walther (1992)

Joseph B. Walther (1992)