The Transactional Model of Stress and Coping

Feeling stressed is something everyone experiences, and how we see and handle stressors affects how we think. In the 1980s, Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman developed the transactional model of stress and coping. This model gives us a helpful way to understand how people and their surroundings interact during tough times. It changed how researchers think about stress by focusing on how personal feelings and actions play a role.