Engaged coping strategies are more adaptive responses to stress and have had more positive effects. These strategies include strategizing, help seeking, comfort seeking, self-encouragement, and commitment. 

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In response to academic stress, students tend to engage in either: 
- Engaged coping strategies 
- Disengaged coping strategies 

Academic Stress: Coping Strategies

Zimmer-Gembeck, M.J., Skinner, E.A., Scott, R.A., Ryan, K.M., Hawes, T., Gardner, A.A., & Duffy, A.L. (2023). Parental support and adolescents’ coping with academic stressors: A longitudinal study of parents’ influence beyond academic pressure and achievement. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01864-w. 


Parental support and adolescents' coping with academic stressors: A longitudinal study of parents' influence beyond academic pressure 

Academic Stress: Engaged Coping Strategies 

Disengaged coping strategies appear to be a maladaptive form of coping and have been correlated with more issues down the road such as greater amounts of stress and the development of anxiety and/or depression. These strategies include: Confusion, rumination, concealment, self-pity, and escape. 

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