• Arushi Tripathi
• Dr. Sanjay Ghosh

Coping behavior is the reaction apathetic situations. It is a basic process key to survival. It measures how individual cope with their problems. Mostly people try to distract themselves from the stress or try to overcome by engage in stress reduces activities like involve in problem solving, maintaining emotional relationships, eat balanced diet, sound sleep, go on vacations and so on. These adults at this age face difficulties to deal with stress; either they escape from the stressor or give up. When a person faces difficulties or failed to cope they seek to medical help. But very few of them face the stressor and try to cope up from the stress. Young adults with cancer experience changes mentally and physically that results in their coping ability and body image. Coping strategies have been found very effective for handling stress among young adults (Neito.M et.al. 2020). Risk taking behavior and the relation of coping strategies has been effectively found among young adult (Harnandez.R et.al. 2019). Coping strategies has been found effective among deadly disease like cancer which also relates to the social support of the person (Kyngas.H et.al. 2008). Coping strategies have also been found pain among young adults (Lefebvre. J.C et.al. 1995). So, in the present study, an attempt has been made to determine the coping strategies to combat stress among young adults. 20 males and 20 females subject have been taken for the study. Coping checklist Rao, Subbakrishna (1989) has been used for the present study. Results indicate that the mean scores of male is higher than the mean scores of females (male= 42.8, female= 39.11) females, which indicates that male subjects have shown greater coping strategies compare to female subjects in the present study. From SD scores, it has found that male subjects show more variability compare to female subjects (male= 9.92, female= 8.81). t value (1.24) has been found significant at 0.05 level, it indicates the mean scores of the two groups are statistically significant. Therefore, it may be concluded that both male and female have shown greater coping strategies compare to average and male subjects scores are higher than the female subjects. Their mean scores are statistically significant in the present study.

"TO DETERMINE THE COPING STRATEGIES TO COMBAT STRESS AMONG YOUNG ADULTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no.c15-c20, February-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202221.pdf

"TO DETERMINE THE COPING STRATEGIES TO COMBAT STRESS AMONG YOUNG ADULTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no. ppc15-c20, February-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202221.pdf