Do you remain calm and take decisive action when faced with challenging situations? Do you actively explore alternative solutions when tackling problems? Have you sought assistance from others to navigate through difficult times? Or, do you tend to surrender easily when confronted with tough circumstances? Take this coping skills assessment to know about your coping skill.
What Are Coping Skills?
Coping skills refer to the thoughts, emotions, and actions that individuals use to deal effectively with stressful situations, difficult emotions, or a vulnerable mental state.
Coping skills are essential for maintaining emotional well-being and resilience in the face of adversity. They can vary from person to person and can be both adaptive and maladaptive.
Adaptive coping skills are healthy and constructive strategies that help individuals positively navigate through stressors and challenges. On the other hand, maladaptive coping skills are unhealthy and counterproductive ways of dealing with stress that may provide temporary relief but can have negative long-term consequences.
Below are several qualities that can be observed in individuals who possess strong coping skills:
Perceiving challenges as opportunities for personal growth
Effective in identifying, understanding, and managing their emotions
Analyze problematic issues thoroughly
Able to adapt to new situations using different strategies
Demonstrate empathy towards themselves and others
Instructions For Taking Coping Skills Assessment
Below is a list of statements about how an individual copes with different situations. Please read each statement carefully and rate the extent to which these are relevant to you.
Your score indicates that you have a low sign of coping skills. It is evident from your score that to a few extent, you seem to remain calm and able to take action to make a stressful situation better. Further, your score seems that in very rare cases, you seem to try to understand the real cause of a problem and search for alternatives to better handle it. Further, it can be seen from your score that you might engage in giving up yourself also when faced with challenging situations in most cases. Besides this, your score reflects that in a few cases, you seem to consider challenges as opportunities for personal growth and development and do involve yourself in other activities such as exercise, hobbies, or meditation to help you to get through tough times.
Along with this, it can also be seen from your score that in a very rare case, you seem to accept the truth of a difficult situation and work for further emotional support from your close ones, hence it becomes difficult for you to see the positive sides of a challenging situation. However, it should be noted that your responses have a chance to strongly impact your social, occupational, personal, and other areas of functioning.
Want to learn more?
Some ways that can help to improve the coping skills of an individual, such as increasing self-awareness and identifying personal triggers and patterns of response, fostering relationships with supportive individuals who can offer guidance, and empathy, engaging in activity that allows expressing one’s creativity, such as painting, singing, enhancing problem-solving skills by breaking down problems into smaller segments, engaging in regular self-care activities, such as exercise, relaxation, and other mindfulness techniques. If you want to know how to develop your coping skills, talk to our professional psychologists.
You can use our Mood Tracker to stay mindful of your mood every day, and identify your innermost thoughts & emotions on a daily basis. It will help you in doing the things you love while limiting activities that might dampen your mood.
Sign Of Moderate Coping Skills
Your score indicates that you have moderate signs of coping skills. It is evident from your score that sometimes you might remain calm and able to take action to make a stressful situation better. Further, your score seems that in some cases, you might try to understand the real cause of a problem and search for alternatives to better handle it. Further, it can be seen from your score that to some extent you might engage in giving up yourself also when faced with challenging situations. Besides this, your score reflects that in some cases, you might consider challenges as opportunities for personal growth and development and do involve yourself in other activities such as exercise, hobbies, or meditation to help you to get through tough times.
Along with this, it can also be seen from your score that often you might try accepting the truth of a difficult situation and work for further emotional support from your close ones, and also in some cases might try looking into the positive sides of a challenging situation. However, it should be noted that these signs might impact some of your social, occupational, personal, and other areas of functioning.
Want to learn more?
Some ways that can help to improve the coping skills of an individual, such as increasing self-awareness and identifying personal triggers and patterns of response, fostering relationships with supportive individuals who can offer guidance, and empathy, engaging in activity that allows expressing one’s creativity, such as painting, singing, enhancing problem-solving skills by breaking down problems into smaller segments, engaging in regular self-care activities, such as exercise, relaxation, and other mindfulness techniques. If you want to know how to develop your coping skills, talk to our professional psychologists.
You can use our Mood Tracker to stay mindful of your mood every day, and identify your innermost thoughts & emotions on a daily basis. It will help you in doing the things you love while limiting activities that might dampen your mood.
Sign Of High Coping Skills
Your score indicates that you have a high sign of coping skills. It is evident from your score that in most cases you might remain calm and able to take action to make a stressful situation better. Further, your score seems that in most situations, you might try to understand the real cause of a problem and search for alternatives to better handle it. Further, it can be seen from your score that to a many extent, you might engage in not giving up yourself also when faced with challenging situations. Besides this, your score reflects that in most frequent cases, you might consider challenges as opportunities for personal growth and development and do involve yourself in other activities such as exercise, hobbies, or meditation to help you to get through tough times very well.
Along with this, it can also be seen from your score that in most cases, you seem to accept the truth of a difficult situation and work for further emotional support actively from your close ones and most possibly try looking into the positive sides of a challenging situation. However, it should be noted that all these signs seem to indicate a positive impact on social, personal, occupational, and other areas of functioning in your life.
Want to learn more?
Some ways that can help to improve the coping skills of an individual, such as increasing self-awareness and identifying personal triggers and patterns of response, fostering relationships with supportive individuals who can offer guidance, and empathy, engaging in activity that allows expressing one’s creativity, such as painting, singing, enhancing problem-solving skills by breaking down problems into smaller segments, engaging in regular self-care activities, such as exercise, relaxation, and other mindfulness techniques. If you want to know how to develop your coping skills, talk to our professional psychologists.
You can use our Mood Tracker to stay mindful of your mood every day, and identify your innermost thoughts & emotions on a daily basis. It will help you in doing the things you love while limiting activities that might dampen your mood.
