15. Coping Flashcards
Most people who experienced life crises remain healthy, this resilience in the face of stress reflects the ways people deal with stressful situations, called ways of ____ __ ____ ____.
coping or coping mechanisms
Coping strategies.
Strategies aimed at changing the situation producing the stress.
Problem focused coping
Efforts to alter thoughts about the situation, and efforts to alter the unpleasant emotional consequences of stress.
Emotion focused coping
The tendency to exert minimal effort to escape stressful social and economic circumstances – is an adaptive coping strategy when social barriers make effort and achievement fruitless and when hard work and academic success would only increase frustration and anger.
Low-effort syndrome
An important resource for coping with stress is social support. ____ ____ refers to the presence of others in whom a person can confide and from whom the individual can expect help and concern.
Social support
Proposes that social support is a buffer or protective factor against the harmful effects of stress during high stress periods.
The buffering hypothesis
Views social support as a continuously positive force that makes the person less susceptible to stress in the first place.
Alternative hypothesis
The physical and psychological ____ of having the people on whom we can rely are well known.
benefits
Other people provide a ____ ___ and a sounding board against which we can bounce ideas and hear ourselves think.
listening ear
People who lack social support and have no one to whom they can express their thoughts and feelings show ____ psychological and physiological functioning.
reduced
They frequently ruminate about stressors they are experiencing, and they experience heightened bouts of ____ ___ ____ relative to people who are able to discuss their stressors with others.
anxiety and depression
