Stress and coping in adolescence

Abstract

Adolescence has often been described as a period filled with stress and tension. Changes in the social environment as well as physiological ones provide wide opportunity to face potentially threatening events.However, there is an interaction between relevant coping traits and the characteristics of each particular context. Adolescents´ interpersonal resources combined with intrapersonal factors such as age, gender, intelligence, and temperament, are perceived as crucial predictors of coping and adaptation. The aims are to study: a) the type of stressors that are salient in adolescents living in Buenos Aires, b) How do adolescents cope with these stressors, c) How do age and gender differences shape coping behavior, d) How do the perceived parent relationships influence the adolescent´s coping?, e) How do the perceived peer relationships contribute to adolescent´s coping.