Coping strategies among rural youth from selected states of India

Pages: 810-813
Gaytri Tiwari and Ruchi Galundia (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Home Science, MPUAT, Udaipur, Rajasthan)

The stresses inherent in the daily challenges of life create a need for continuous monitoring and adjustment. It is a nearly continuous process as people are frequently confronted with new and changing environmental demands that can lead to stress. Minimizing, mastering or managing a situation in such a way as to render it less distressing is the goal of coping. Everyone copes but some ways are better than others. Being able to cope with things makes one a stronger person. This research primarily focused to find out the coping strategies among rural youth in selected states of India. For this purpose, a study was carried out in order to find out the coping strategies of 349 rural youth from selected states of India between the age group of 14-24 years and to provide results based remedial solutions and interventions. Coping response inventory developed by Moos, 1993 was used to find out the coping skills used by rural adolescents. The scale measures coping skills of the respondents in two major areas viz. approach coping and avoidance coping. For this purpose, samples were selected from different villages of nine states in India which includes Assam (Jorhat), Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad), Haryana (Hissar), Himachal Pradesh (Palampur), Uttar Pradesh (Pantnagar), Rajasthan (Udaipur), Maharashtra (Parbhani), Punjab (Ludhiana), Uttarakhand (Dharwad). Results revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to low category of approach and avoidance coping.