Background: Stress coping strategies, as one of the basic components in health psychology, play a decisive role in how individuals adapt to stressful situations and maintain psychological well-being. Research shows that the type of coping strategies used by individuals can moderate or exacerbate the psychological, emotional, and even physical consequences of stress.
Aim: Predicting coping strategies (problem-focused, emotion-focused, avoidance, adaptive, and maladaptive strategies) of students in stressful situations is based on spiritual beliefs, personal values, and brain waves.
Methodology: The research method is quantitative and its design is descriptive-predictive. The statistical population includes students of Persian Gulf University in the academic year 1403-1404. The questionnaire sample was selected using multi-stage cluster sampling method and the brain wave sample was selected using simple random sampling from the questionnaire sample. In this study, questionnaires on coping with stress, spiritual beliefs and personal values were used, and an electroencephalogram device was used to measure brain waves.
Findings: The findings of the study showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between spiritual beliefs and adaptive coping strategies; while there was no significant negative relationship between spiritual beliefs and maladaptive coping strategies. The results of the analyses also indicated that some individual values and value poles (especially the poles of self-aggrandizement and self-enhancement and their values) play a significant role in predicting different types of coping strategies, and distinct patterns of neural connections were identified in terms of the type and location of brain waves.
Conclusion: The findings showed that adaptive coping is the result of the convergence of growth-oriented values, spiritual beliefs, and distinct neurobiological patterns, and these three levels reinforce it in a coordinated manner. In contras