2024年1月12日 · What Is Avoidance Coping? Avoidance coping—also known as avoidant coping, avoidance behaviors, and escape coping—is a maladaptive form of coping in which a person changes their behavior to avoid thinking about, feeling, or doing difficult things.  

In psychology, avoidance coping is a coping mechanism and form of experiential avoidance. It is characterized by a person's efforts, conscious or unconscious, to avoid dealing with a stressor in order to protect oneself from the difficulties the stressor presents. [ 1 ]

2022年6月24日 · There are five main types of avoidance behavior: situational, cognitive, protective, somatic, and substitution. We take a closer look.

2013年5月5日 · Avoidance coping creates stress and anxiety, and ravages self-confidence. It's is a major factor that differentiates people who have common psychological problems...

2023年9月15日 · Avoidance coping differs from problem-focused mechanisms in that it aims to alleviate immediate distress by denying, minimizing, avoiding, or distracting oneself from stressful or unpleasant thoughts, feelings, or situations rather than dealing with them directly.

2022年10月26日 · Do you avoid your fears instead of facing them? We look at why people use avoidance coping, plus 5 ways to fix it so you can move toward the life you want.

Avoidance coping is a maladaptive coping strategy that involves avoiding discomforts rather than facing problems. Read more about healthy coping strategies.

2022年12月5日 · Avoidance coping temporarily reduces stress by avoiding certain situations, thoughts, or feelings. 1, 2, 4 Some people use cognitive avoidance strategies to distract themselves, ignore problems, or avoid dealing with their stress.

2021年3月8日 · Avoidance is a maladaptive coping strategy, or in other words, an active escape from some stressful situation. The different forms of avoidance fall into two main categories and can often...

2024年10月29日 · Discover how avoidance behavior affects anxiety and learn coping mechanisms to confront and overcome it. Improve mental well-being by addressing avoidance behaviors.