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Deutsch: Adaptives Bewältigen / Español: Afrontamiento Adaptativo / Português: Enfrentamento Adaptativo / Français: Coping Adaptatif / Italiano: Coping Adattivo
Adaptive Coping in the context of psychology refers to the constructive and flexible strategies individuals employ to manage and respond to stress, challenges, or adversity. Unlike maladaptive coping mechanisms, which can exacerbate stress and lead to negative outcomes, adaptive coping promotes resilience, well-being, and positive adjustment.
Adaptive self -organization refers to the process by which an open system retains its essential identity when confronted with new and constant environmental conditions. It creates new substructures, revises the relationships among components, and establishes new, higher levels of organization that coordinate existing substructures. Moreover, it is adjustments made by an operating system in which feedback mechanisms identify and respond to environmental changes in order to maintain and enhance the functioning of the system
Deutsch: Adaptives Strategieauswahlmodell / Español: Modelo de elección de estrategia adaptativa / Português: Modelo de escolha de estratégia adaptativa / Français: Modèle de choix de stratégie adaptative / Italiano: Modello di scelta strategica adattiva /
Adaptive strategy choice model refers to Siegler's model to describe how strategies change over time; the view that multiple strategies exist within a child's cognitive repertoire at any one time, with these strategies competing with one another for use.