Abstract

 The article presents the results of the first stage of the Latvia-Lithuania cross-border project “Developing of Social Psychological Support Service System through Implementation of Method of Positive Coping Strategies and Enhancement of Social Inclusion for People in Vulnerable Groups” (POZCOPING), in which, based on the adolescents’ self-report and using the methodology (Adolescent Coping Scale) developed by E. Freidenberg and R. Lewis, stress-causing problems and the use and helpfulness of stress coping strategies of adolescents’ in Latvia were identified and analysed.
Highlights
School is an environment where an adolescent’s personality is shaped, a place where they face many difficulties, which can lead to deep emotional traumas
The aim of the article is to present the results of the first stage of the Latvia-Lithuania cross-border project “Developing of Social Psychological Support Service System through Implementation of Method of Positive Coping Strategies and Enhancement of Social Inclusion for People in Vulnerable Groups” (POZCOPING) on stress-causing problems, the use and helpfulness of stress coping strategies of adolescents in Latvia
The aim of the article is to analyze adolescents’ stress-causing problems, strategies for stress coping used in their solution and their effectiveness depending on the profile of respondents, as well as to identify the resources for the improvement of positive, productive and long-term stress management strategies and stress reduction by using adolescents’ self-report
Summary
School is an environment where an adolescent’s personality is shaped, a place where they face many difficulties, which can lead to deep emotional traumas. Adolescence is a significant growth and development stage, which marks a period of transition from childhood to adulthood It is one of the most important stages in every person’s life, when rapid changes both physically and psychologically take place (Srivastava & Kiran, 2015). In psychology adolescence staging is not uniform; the staging is based on just one criterion: puberty, psychosexual development, or changes in primary activity and interests. Adolescents’ nervous system has specific functional features, which reflect in increased excitability, hyperactivity, emotional lability Psychologists explain it with a shift of cortical and subcortical activity balance, activation of subcortical activity in puberty.
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