INOVASI MEKANISME KOPING REMAJA MELALUI PEMAKNAAN DAN REGULASI EMOSI

General Background Adolescent psychological well-being is highly susceptible to interpersonal discord, transforming peer conflicts from transient disruptions into complexpsychosocial phenomena. Specific Background Secondary school students face intense relational pressures, where subjective cognitive appraisals and emotional regulation strategies continuously negotiate to form appropriate social responses to peer antagonism. Knowledge Gap Existing research predominantly isolates emotional experiences from cognitive evaluations, lacking a holistic analysis demonstrating how meaning-making and emotional suppression concurrently precipitate specific coping mechanisms within daily non-extreme peer disputes. Aims This study examines adolescent subjective interpretations, emotional experiences, and subsequent coping mechanisms developed during peer conflict situations. Results Utilizing a qualitative instrumental case study involving five students and one counselor, analysis reveals that students interpret conflicts dynamically, ranging from mere teenage provocation to severe personal boundary violations. Emotional suppression is frequently employed as a social defense against confusion and anger. Consequently, coping mechanisms strictly effectively equip adolescents for healthy social navigation. Highlights depend on the interplay between subjective meaning and emotional capacity, dictating responses from assertive confrontation to complete avoidance. Novelty This research specifically models how deliberate emotional suppression interacts with varying subjective interpretations to dictate adolescent conflict resolution strategies outside of extreme bullying contexts. Implications School counseling services must transition from surface-level behavioral mediation towards structured psychological interventions focused on cultivating emotional literacy and adaptive meaning-making to Students dynamically interpret peer conflicts ranging from trivial teenage provocations to severe personal boundary violations. Adolescents frequently employ deliberate emotional suppression as a primary social defense mechanism during conflicts. The interplay between subjective interpretation and emotional capacity strictly determines