ABSTRACT
Coping can be meaningfully integrated into contemporary theories and philosophical orientations. The good news is that temperament, like coping, can be modified by experiences such as style of parenting, with a warm understanding parental style being an asset. Coping skills provide protective buffers. Emotional intelligence is an important aspect of helpful coping. Stress is part of everyday life and coping is how we deal with stress. The basic appraisal theory of coping has been complemented by resource theory, which emphasises that coping is not only about how an individual appraises the situation, but it is also about what resources are available to the individual in their particular context. As Lodge points out, promoting coping skills online would be an appropriate and helpful approach that needs to be developed for resilience in general but more particularly for digital resilience.
