Exploring Coping Strategies of Adolescent Students: Research in Education

Running Head: RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
Research in Education
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Focus and Purpose of Study
The primary intention of the work is to find out all coping styles and strategies which
an adolescent student makes use of, that is, adolescent students who are faced with learning
abilities and also adolescent students in general. The research aims on uncovering whether
any sort of intervention might be required for students who opt for the use of passive coping
styles and strategies instead of opting for constructive ways by which to deal with their
problems. The risky tendency of adolescent students who have learning disabilities
particularly, to make use of a passive coping style to handle their problems is something that
has been highlighted quite well throughout this particular work of research.
Research Hypothesis Questions Guiding the Study
Some of the key research questions that this particular research study is seen to be based on
are as follows –
Are there any similarities at all between coping strategies as well as styles which are used by
the adolescent students who have high learning disabilities and adolescent students in
general?
The major research hypothesis which was put to the test during this particular research study
is the premise that there are not likely to be any differences at all between coping styles and
strategies which are utilized by adolescent students in general with those that are made use of
on the part of adolescent students that are faced with different types of learning disabilities. A
key instrument that was put to use in order to arrive at the results of this particular research
study is the Adolescent Coping Scale.

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Methods of Doing the Research
Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were made use of in order to carry out this
research study. The sample was chosen in a quick and efficient manner with four important
secondary and co-educational schools being chosen for the research. Efforts were made to
ensure an equal representation from all economic backgrounds. For this purpose, the schools
that were selected for the study were those that were attended by students of high economic
backgrounds, medium economic backgrounds and low-income backgrounds respectively.
Once the schools were chosen, the key participants in the research were identified. The
special needs teachers in each and every one of these schools were identified and selected to
take part in interviews, in order to arrive at results concerning the adolescent students with
learning disabilities. Apart from the special needs teachers, other interested teachers at these
co-educational schools and the coordinators of the project were selected for taking part in the
interview process. To go ahead and select the participants of the research study is not
something that was difficult at all as the personnel at these schools were mostly known to the
researchers. The crucial instrument that was made use of for the purpose of conducting the
research is alluded to as Adolescent Coping Scale. This is in essence a survey method which
has been designed in a way that it includes the language as well as the vocabulary of as many
as six hundred students. Such a survey method is one that not only has an empirical base but
a theoretical base as well. Every effort was also made on the part of the researchers to do the
work in as ethical a manner as possible. Only those who were willing to be questioned for the
research study were approached on the part of the investigators for the same. Those who did
not profess any willingness to get involved in this research were kept out of the study
completely.
It is important to remember that a partial assessment or a full assessment was made by the
researchers only at the initial two schools out of the four schools which had been selected for