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Coping Strategies among Rural Youth from Seleeted States of India


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The stresses inherent in the daily challenges of life create a need for continuous monitoring and adjustment. It is a nearly continuous process as people are frequently confronted with new and changing environmental demands that can lead to stress. Minimizing, mastering or managing a situation in such a way as to render it less distressing is the goal o f coping. Everyone copes but some ways are better than others. Being able to cope with things makes one a stronger person. This research primarily focused to find out the coping strategies among rural youth in selected states of India. For this purpose, a study was carried out in order to find out the coping strategies of 349 rural youth from selected states of India between the age group o f 14-24 years and to provide results based remedial solutions and interventions. Coping response inventory developed by Moos, 1993 was used to find out the coping skills used by rural adolescents. The scale measures coping skills o f the respondents in two major areas viz. approach coping and avoidance coping. For this purpose, samples were selected from difierent villages of nine states in India which includes Assam (Jorhat), Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad), Haryana (Hissar), Himachal Pradesh (Palampur), Uttar Pradesh (Pantnagar), Rajasthan (Udaipur), Maharashtra (Parbhani), Punjab (Ludhiana), Uttarakhand (Dharwad). Results revealed that maj ority of the respondents belonged to low category of approach and avoidance coping.

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Daily Life Challenges, Approach and Avoidance Coping Strategies, Rural Youth.
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Authors

Gaytri Tiwari
Department o f Human Development and Family Studies, College of Home Seienee, MPUAT, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
Ruchi Galundia
Department o f Human Development and Family Studies, College of Home Seienee, MPUAT, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Abstract


The stresses inherent in the daily challenges of life create a need for continuous monitoring and adjustment. It is a nearly continuous process as people are frequently confronted with new and changing environmental demands that can lead to stress. Minimizing, mastering or managing a situation in such a way as to render it less distressing is the goal o f coping. Everyone copes but some ways are better than others. Being able to cope with things makes one a stronger person. This research primarily focused to find out the coping strategies among rural youth in selected states of India. For this purpose, a study was carried out in order to find out the coping strategies of 349 rural youth from selected states of India between the age group o f 14-24 years and to provide results based remedial solutions and interventions. Coping response inventory developed by Moos, 1993 was used to find out the coping skills used by rural adolescents. The scale measures coping skills o f the respondents in two major areas viz. approach coping and avoidance coping. For this purpose, samples were selected from difierent villages of nine states in India which includes Assam (Jorhat), Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad), Haryana (Hissar), Himachal Pradesh (Palampur), Uttar Pradesh (Pantnagar), Rajasthan (Udaipur), Maharashtra (Parbhani), Punjab (Ludhiana), Uttarakhand (Dharwad). Results revealed that maj ority of the respondents belonged to low category of approach and avoidance coping.

Keywords


Daily Life Challenges, Approach and Avoidance Coping Strategies, Rural Youth.

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