<i>Coping</i> as executive function

Authors

  • Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira PUCRS
  • Ledo Daruy Filho
  • Elisa Brietzke Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

Keywords:

enfrentamento, função executiva, “coping”, estresse, córtex frontal, neuropsicologia, neurociência, cognição

Abstract

Coping is the term to describe the strategies used to adapt individuals to stress. This theoretical paper reviews the four levels model of coping, with low order processes corresponding to coping instances and the high order processes corresponding to a global adaptation strategies. The article reviews characteristics of coping that approach it to executive functions, primarily dependent of frontal cortical structures. Coping would perform trough primary control or direct action in source of stress or negative emotion, through secondary control or adaptation to source of stress, and through disengage or escape stressors or negative emotions. Besides that, this paper argument that coping involves evaluation, planning, analysis and results anticipation, and that it is typically related to executive functions. Keywords: coping; executive function; stress; frontal cortex; neuropsychology; neuroscience; cognition.

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Author Biographies

Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira, PUCRS

Psiquiatra. Doutor em Psicologia. Professor do Departamento de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia - Cognição Humana e da Faculdade de Psicologia da PUCRS. Coordenador do Grupo de Pesquisa em Psicobiologia e Neurociência Cognitiva do Desenvolvimento.

Ledo Daruy Filho

Psiquiatra. Pesquisadoe colaborador do Grupo de Pesquisa em Psicobiologia e Neurociência Cognitiva do Desenvolvimento.

Elisa Brietzke, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

Psiquiatra; Mestre em Ciências Médicas. Doutoranda em Psiquiatria do Programa de Atendimento ao Transtorno do Humor Bipolar, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

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Published

2008-11-26

How to Cite

Grassi-Oliveira, R., Daruy Filho, L., & Brietzke, E. (2008). <i>Coping</i> as executive function. Psico, 39(3). Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistapsico/article/view/3852

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Vol. 39 No. 3 (2008)

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