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cope with (someone or something)

To endure something, usually something unpleasant or undesirable. We need to increase the budget this year—our teachers have coped with a lack of funds for long enough. I can't cope with all of this uncertainty—I need to hear back from the colleges I applied to!

cope with someone or something

to endure someone or something; to manage to deal with someone or something. I don't think I can cope with any more trouble. I can't cope with your being late for work anymore.

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A demographical questionnaire prepared by the authors for this study, the CISS, COPE inventory, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale were administered to the participants.

Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations/Stresli Durumlarla Basa Cikma Envanteri'nin Turkce formunun psikometrik ozellikleri

The Lazarus Transactional Model of Stress and Coping was used as a guide to understand nurses' ability to cope with dilemmas through cognitive appraisal and coping processes (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).

Table 1 also shows the alpha reliability of Brief Cope Scale and its subscales.

TEST ANXIETY AND COPING STRATEGIES AMONG COLLEGES STUDENTS

Day continued his good form in the second frame but then missed a simple pink and, after missing a more difficult chance, Cope moved two frames clear.

Cope sees off Day in late surge; SNOOKER

However, Cope could cause plenty of problems for Higgins, who can be vulnerable against a top young talent, and the selection would have a definite chance of upsetting the Grand Prix champion should they meet.

Cope could manage some heavy scoring; SNOOKER

Accordingly, it would seem necessary that individuals learn various coping strategies and be able to effectively identify resources in order to successfully cope with diverse challenges (Hood & Carruthers, 2002).

Using recreational therapy to improve coping self-efficacy among adolescents in residential treatment settings: a student perspective

They completed the Brief COPE questionnaire (4) and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS).

Coping strategies and social support after receiving HIV-positive results at a South African district hospital

How efficacious, caring Samaritans cope with unexpected rejection.

Experience of being spurned: coping style, stress preparation, and depersonalization in beginning kindergarten teachers

1991) found that wives' use of optimism as a way to cope was negatively related to their husbands' distress.

Cancer as a "we-disease": examining the process of coping from a relational perspective

Black women, less studied than white women, might cope more effectively because of greater support from kin and fictive kin (Haley et al.

Coping with stressful events: influence of parental alcoholism and race in a community sample of women

North Sefton magistrates found Cope guilty of 10 offences.

Builder left loft family in danger

In an attempt to cope with this rapidly growing need, Bar-beau says the school is pursuing the creation of an additional $130,000 machining lab.

Colleges keeping pace with industry

Participants responded to a subset of items from the Brief COPE (Carver, 1997), which contains 14 tactics (active coping, planning, positive reframing, acceptance, humor, religion, using emotional support, using instrumental support, self-distraction, denial, venting, substance use, behavioral disengagement, and self-blame), with two items per scale.

Are midterms bad for faculty?

Nolen-Hoeksema (1994) has suggested that one factor contributing to adolescent girls' increased vulnerability to depression is how they cope with stress.