Coping Mechanisms among High School Students Utilizing Hassle’s Assessment Tool

Abstract

Background: High School Students’ Coping Mechanism. Objectives: research design used descriptive correlational design. This study will evaluate the relationship between the multiple factors that have not been investigated. Methods: The correlational design was appropriate to evaluate the coping mechanisms of the students in relations to stressful situation they are presently facing. The population of the study participated 340 fourth year High School Students. Results: This study revealed that the coping mechanisms of the students showed a significant degree of variance of the eight dimensions of coping mechanism among the respondents. Among the eight dimensions, wishful thinking and detachment were mostly employed among the High Students whenever they are confronted with the problems while tension reduction has the lowest aggregated which showed that the problems they are confronted is inevitable part of their life and it is how up to them to deal with it. It can be noticed that since the respondents came from lower economic class, they have no ways and means of resorting to take a vacation/leisure as a distress activity. This study is deemed beneficial to specific individuals and group of people: District Supervisor, School Principal, Guidance Counselors, Parents & Future researches.
Keywords: Coping mechanism, Senior high school, Students