Coping style and social competence of children

Coping style and social competence of children

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ( 2015-11-17 )

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The monograph title "Coping style and social competence of children" in psychology scans the coping behavior and social competence of children. The study narrates the gender and sociocultural differences of three different cultural dimensions i.e, urban, rural and tribal children, their coping styles, strategies and social competence With 3 cultures x 2 gender x 3 grades. COPE test ( Trait), COPE test (scheme)and SOCIAL competence Scale (Basic) was used in the study to measure different traits and competence. The findings revealed that Tribal children predominantly used and continued to use belief and somatic coping with unimodal coping style while the urban children demonstrated multi modal coping style with cognitive and imaginative coping. Further urban children quickly learned to use appraisal focused coping while the rural and tribal children continued to predominantly use problem- focused coping. It was found that early grade children in three culture used more belief, affect and somatic coping style and gradually they changed over to social channel, cognitive and imagination coping. Further boys used more somatic coping where as girls used belief coping.

Book Details:

ISBN-13:

978-3-659-58611-8

ISBN-10:

3659586110

EAN:

9783659586118

Book language:

English

By (author) :

Pranati Satapathy

Number of pages:

140

Published on:

2015-11-17

Category:

Psychology