Page No:87-100
Anamika Modi Jain
Govt. J. Yoganandam Chhattisgarh College, Raipur (C.G.)
This review examines a variety of coping mechanisms, such as emotion-focused,
problem-focused and avoidance techniques and assesses how well they work to reduced
depressive symptoms. The importance of personality, gender and cultural differences
on coping outcomes and preferences is highlighted in the review research. It also
points out gaps in the literature and makes recommendations for future research
directions to improve coping mechanisms for a diverse population of college students.
Coping strategies were effective for prevention of depressive symptoms. It was seen
that male significantly predicted problem focused coping strategies and female
significantly predict emotion focused coping strategies. It has been resulted that
participant which used more task focused coping found low level of depression and
anxiety.