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The history of contemporary coping research goes back to the work of Richard Lazarus in the Berkeley Stress and Coping laboratory in the 1960s but it was not till the 1980s that coping came into prominence. For the four decades since that time we have come to know a great deal about coping that has been identified by other key researchers such as Steven Hobfoll, Charles Carver, Bruce Compas, and Eleanor Skinner and Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and colleagues, to name a few. Some three decades ago when the concerns of young people and how they cope was explored we found that there were three categories of concerns, namely, getting on in life, relationships, and concern with societal issues. This is much the same today. Research by the authors and that of others has identified ways of classifying and measuring coping along with key strategies that identify helpful and unhelpful coping process. What this body of research has achieved is to record some universal realities around coping and adaption.
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Frydenberg, E., Liang, R. (2021). Coping for All Seasons. In: Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Przeperski, J., Nadesan, V., Rezaul, I., Gao, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68127-2_167-1
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