Coping Styles

Introduction Mental health concerns, such as social and relational stressors, is an essential issue in teens, and research has found positive coping skills can help these students through the difficulties of high school stress (Kadhiravan & Kumar, 2012). As discussed earlier, cyberbullying may have psychological impacts such as stress, depression, anxiety, anger, school failure, and even suicidality. At these students young age, positive coping skills may not be part of their inventory of skills, hence, there is a need to understand how these students currently cope so we can greater assist victims and potential victims of cyberbullying gain the skills they need to be resilient. During this study, three major themes about coping styles emerged: problem avoidance social support and externalization. Of the three emergent coping styles for these students, social support is the most positive way to deal with conflict in the long term. Problem avoidance and externalization (yelling/ working out) may deal with the situation in the short term, but may hinder solving underlying
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