The study investigates the emotional costs experienced in the new workplace and general self-efficacy (GSE) as predictors of coping during the first period of reemployment. The study was conducted among 69 unemployed during professional internship. Questionnaires battery was administered in two waves (T1 and T2) within the first two weeks of this kind of reemployment and after 3 months. 35 respondents participated in T2. The results showed GSE and emotional costs as predictors of coping strategies using in the work re-entry phase. Further regression analysis showed a significant relationship between problem solving (T1) and GSE, and emotional costs (T2).

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 shattered Western illusions of peace and security, raining tensions on both a macro and micro level. This article was thus inspired by how the war had affected Philology students in Poland, specifically emphasising the city of Rzeszow, which lies close to the Ukrainian border. The aim assigned to the research project was to investigate levels of resilience among students and how this correlates with stress levels and to further investigate the potential coping strategies adopted by the students to mitigate their anxiety levels. What has been shown is that there is a correlation between the proximity of students to graduation and the levels of anxiety they felt about their future employment prospects and that the most common method for coping with stress was to become actively involved in assisting in the most immediate manifestation of the cause of the stress, in this case assisting refugees.

This study aimed to investigate the relationship of academic procrastination to coping strategies with test anxiety and to explore whether there are significant differences in using these strategies between procrastinators and non-procrastinators. The study sample comprised 455 high school students (mean age was 17.04 years). Two scales were used one for measuring academic procrastination and the other for measuring coping strategies with test anxiety. The scale of coping strategies is composed of four subscales: Danger control (e.g., using time effectively), anxiety control (e.g., relaxation), anxiety repression (e.g., denial of a situation that produces test anxiety), and situation control (e.g., cheating). Data were analysed using Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients, median-split method and t-tests. Results revealed that academic procrastination correlated positively and significantly with anxiety repression and situation control, and correlated negatively and significantly with anxiety and danger control. In addition, the results showed that anxiety repression was the most common strategy used by procrastinators, while anxiety danger was the most common strategy used by non-procrastinators. Significant differences were found between procrastinators and non-procrastinators in using coping strategies, where procrastinators used more strategies of anxiety repression and situation control, whereas non-procrastinators used more strategies of danger control and anxiety control.

This paper deals with the way young people experience an identity crisis, which is analyzed in terms of the self-creation problems that academic youth are confronted with. It is also an attempt to outline strategies for coping with a crisis, including adolescent rebellion, considered to be a peculiar form of dealing with the problems related to self-creation. An identity crisis has been analyzed in the aspect of fundamental “ego” states (identity forms), classified in the article into two general categories: an integrated, pro-developmental identity, and a disintegrated, anti-developmental one. In the study the author also examines the potential consequences of identity disturbances, and the mechanisms governing the process of creating an individual identity. Analysis of rebellion, the experience which young people go through, aims at investigating its two fundamental forms (inner vs. outer rebellion), and the main underlying sources (altruistic vs. egocentric rebellion). The examination of strategies for coping with problems, presented in the article, includes: constructive activity, active and passive escape, and seeking social support.