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The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of a stress-management program for college students of social work on their perception of mental stress and stress-coping strategies. Students in a stress-management group received progressive muscle training, cognitive-behavioral skills training, and assertion training for 14 weeks. Their life events, stress symptoms, and stress-coping skills (active and passive coping skills), evaluated on the first and last days of program, were compared with those of a control group. The effect of the participants' trait anxiety on those variables was also examined. Because the stress-management program in the present study focused on coping strategies, it was expected that the students' coping skills would change. The results showed that passive coping skills of students in the stress-management group had decreased after the program.
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Hirokawa, K., Yagi, A. & Miyata, Y. An Examination of the Effects of Stress Management Training for Japanese College Students of Social Work. International Journal of Stress Management 9, 113–123 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014906820573
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