What is stress coping?
Stress coping is a mental health term derived from the English word cope (to cope with, cope with), and refers to a method of responding to and dealing with stress. Although it is sometimes misunderstood as a type of stress relief method, it is actually a method that assumes that stress exists and attempts to resolve it by “how to deal with it effectively”.
Introducing coping will help establish the image of a company that is committed to improving the mental health of its employees and improving its internal environment, so it is an effective measure as part of a recruitment strategy, and more and more companies will be introducing it in the future. It is expected to increase.
Mechanism of stress generation
In order to practice coping, it is essential to understand the “mechanism” of why stress occurs in the first place. By knowing the mechanism, it becomes easier to see what kind of management should be used to effectively reduce stress and the path to coping.
The mechanism of stress generation can be divided into the following three stages.
Stage 1: Stressors are generated Stressors are things that cause stress. For example, stressors can be caused by a variety of things, including problems at work, interpersonal relationships, crowded trains during commuting, and noise from the neighborhood.
Stage 2: Cognitive evaluation of stressors Cognitive evaluation refers to determining whether a particular stressor is “harmful or harmless to oneself,” and “whether it is possible or impossible to deal with it on one’s own.” When a person recognizes a stressor as “harmful and unmanageable,” this leads to the third stage, “the emergence of a stress response.”
At this time, it is said that the degree of stress one feels from a stressor depends on “how one perceives the event (cognitive evaluation)” and “how one deals with the perceived event (coping).”
Stage 3: Appearance of Stress Reactions This is the stage in which the body and mind are no longer able to defend themselves against stress as the situation continues, causing various symptoms.
Stress reactions are classified into the following three types depending on the state in which they appear.
Psychological: Anxiety, irritation, tension, impatience, low self-esteem, depressed mood, etc. Physical: Sleep disorders, headaches, fatigue, palpitations, increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, loss of appetite, etc. Behavioral: At work Making mistakes, overeating, refusing to eat, alcohol dependence, becoming combative, refusing to come to work, etc.
Before you find yourself in a situation like this, it is important to effectively relieve stress by practicing coping.
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