Keyword: «externals»

Social support coping strategies are aimed at finding psychological and emotional resources in the social environment to cope with difficult, stressful situations. The level of subjective control or perceived control depends on how much control a person has over various social events. This paper presents the results of a study of socially oriented coping strategies, emotional and instrumental social support, with external and internal locus of control. The study revealed lower levels of perceived social support among externals than among internals.