1941 A. H. Maslow & B. Mittelmann x. 167 If we had attempted to make a complete list of coping mechanisms we should eventually have come to realize that all behavior, normal or abnormal, copes in one way or another with situational or character difficulties.
2001 3 July 57/1 She doesn't have the coping mechanism that most of us have... She became so protective of herself that she became proactive, on the offense.