Concomitants of failure to cope: What we should teach adolescents about coping

Abstract

Background. How young people cope with stress is an important component of health and well-being since failure to deal with stress is very costly in social and emotional terms. Aim. In this study we examine the relationship between young people's declared failure to cope and the many coping styles that are reported concomitantly. The research questions addressed the extent to which positive and negative coping strategies co-exist in adolescent populations and whether the co-existence of these strategies confounds interpretation of the impact of coping on outcomes. Sample. A sample of 1219 adolescent school students was drawn from a wide range of 11 government and private coeducational school..