Abstract
According to the modern transactional theories of stress and coping, psychobiological stress responses emerge through an imbalance between demands (i.e., stressor) and psychosocial coping resources, and many factors relevant to this transaction have been identified including the opportunities for control, chronically and predictability of stressor, the availability for expression of anger and for completion of consummately behavior. This review provides some support for the findings that different coping strategies are associated with different patterns of psychobiological stress responses such as the development of gastric lesions, increased release brain noradrenaline and plasma corticosterone as well as deficit of avoidance-escape behavior, and that there is no completely effective coping from the psychobiological perspective. The classification of these patterns named as problem-focused and emotional-focused coping strategies helps us to identify the most appropriate coping behaviors for adaptation to different situations.
