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A Study on Coping Strategies of Emergency Workers in Lockdown of COVID-19

DOI : https://doi.org/10.36349/easjpbs.2020.v02i04.007
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A stress is a situation of emotional and physical tension and people take proper coping strategies, i.e. actions to master, tolerate, reduce or minimise the effects of stressors. This can include problem focused (behavioural) and emotion focused (emotional) strategies. But it is not that people use either problem-focused strategies of emotion focused strategies; most people use both the forms of coping strategies to deal with the controllable stressful events (Eschenbeck et al;2008; Folkman & Lazarus;1980; Lazarus;1993; Stowell et al;2001). For example: gaining social support at the time of stresses. The lockdown situation of 2020 due to corona virus has led to excessive demand on emergency workers which have contributed to rising level of stress. The purpose of this study is to find the coping strategy used by the emergency workers to deal with stress in lockdown situation due to covid-19. Previous researches have focused on the coping strategies of emergency worker in everyday situation. But now Covid-19 has led to a novel situation. Where emergency workers are more vulnerable. The methodology used was semi-structured interview. It is a qualitative study as administration of these interviews was done on phone. Due to lockdown........

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