The new approaches in investigation of coping with stressful situations

If somebody want to investigate stress and coping with stressful situations it is very important to take in account the time dimension or chronological order of stressful event an coping. According to traditional oppinion, stress must be appeared before or, at least, at the moment of coping appearance if we want to speak about coping process. In this paper, we argued about new conceptualization of stress and coping - preventive and proactive coping. Coping process could start even before stressful event occurred. Person could take a several steps (preventive meassures) which are going to make her to be able to cope some future event that could be interpreted like threat, risk or loss, and that would be preventive coping. Also, person could set to herself a goals and ambitions to whom she will going to, trying to see a chance for new development and grow, and that would be proactive coping