Editing Coping (section)

=== Reactive and proactive coping===
Most coping is reactive in that the coping response follows stressors. Anticipating and reacting to a future stressor is known as ''proactive coping'' or future-oriented coping.<ref name="Brannon & Feist 2009 pp121-3"/> [[Anticipation (emotion)|Anticipation]] is when one reduces the stress of some difficult challenge by anticipating what it will be like and preparing for how one is going to cope with it.