A Practical Intervention to Promote Senior High School Students’ Interpersonal Stress Coping (Postponed-solution Coping) in order to Reduce Their Stress Responses

Abstract

Senior high school students who belong to a brass band club were trained to promote effective interpersonal stress coping in order to reduce their stress responses. They were instructed to use postponed-solution coping when confronted with interpersonal stress events and to keep a diary of whether they used postponed-solution coping each day for two weeks. At three times (before the training shortly after the training and 21 days after the training) 21 students as the training group and 21 students as the control group completed questionnaires regarding interpersonal stress coping and stress responses. Contrary to the previous study (Kato, 2005; Taniguchi 2013ab) students in the training group used postponed-solution coping as frequently as control students shortly after training. Both the trained students and the controls reported lower stress responses at 21 days after the training than before the training.