Document Type
Poster Presentation
Publication Date
4-24-2026
Year of Award
2026
Date Assignment Submitted
2026
Abstract
This study investigated the impact of various coping styles on emotional resilience in college students. Coping styles refer to the ways people respond to everyday stress or challenges. This study focused on five major coping styles: wishful thinking (hoping problems will get better on their own), goal-oriented coping (implementing action to overcome challenges), seeking support (asking peers for help), thinking-coping (analyzing situations and developing solutions), and avoidance (ignoring or escaping problems). It was hypothesized that goal-oriented, seeking, and thinking-coping styles would positively correlate with resilience, while wishful and avoidance coping styles would negatively correlate with resilience. Preliminary results show that wishful thinking is negatively associated with resilience, whereas goal-oriented coping is positively associated with resilience. The implications of this data could help inform the development of programs to teach college students healthy coping strategies for managing the challenges of their everyday lives.
Publisher
Lynn University
Conference/Symposium
Lynn University Student Research Symposium
Contest
Poster Presentations: Social Science category
City/State
Boca Raton, FL
Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Instructor
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Patrick J. Cooper
Recommended Citation
Kief, A., & Cooper, P. J. (2026, April 24). Active coping is associated with an increased capacity for resilience [Poster presentation]. Lynn University Student Research Symposium, Boca Raton, FL, United States.
