The phrase "as a coping or" is not correct in written English as it appears to be incomplete.
It could be used in contexts discussing coping mechanisms or strategies, but it needs to be followed by additional information to make sense.
Example: "She turned to art as a coping or therapeutic outlet during difficult times."
Alternatives: "as a means of coping" or "as a coping strategy."
This finding could be interpreted as PTG serving as a coping resource or being the expression of a more balanced world view after the disaster, in which both positive and negative experiences are integrated.
Patients who perceived their aim of treatment to be cured, who did not use avoidance as a coping strategy or who were concerned about their disease experienced longer periods without relapse.
Clear distinctions were made between personal use of alcohol and that of 'others' by using broadly constructed stereotypes of individuals with complex needs, those using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or those outside their own peer groups such as 'young people'.
Magicians, Maven explains, tend to get into magic as kids as a coping mechanism for social or psychological maladjustments.
Joe hangs on to repression as a coping mechanism, while underplaying or denying his medals of the past and his fame in the present.
This study employs mixed methods to determine if unhealthy agricultural households use fallowing as a coping strategy, identifies whether or not unhealthy fallowing households are more vulnerable agriculturally and economically than their healthier fallowing counterparts, and examines whether there is a land cover effect that can be detected using Landsat TM/ETM + satellite imagery.
People who self-harm are not usually seeking to end their own life; it has been suggested instead that they are using self-harm as a coping mechanism to relieve emotional pain or discomfort or as an attempt to communicate distress.
For example, experiences with racism may result in an individual using sex or drugs as a coping strategy and thus, placing themselves at risk for HIV.
40– 42 Because individuals can be inclined to reduce dietary quality or variety as a coping mechanism in such events, 37, 43 transitory food insecurity may cause acute micronutrient deficiency, even in individuals who are typically well-nourished.
