Chapter 7 - Coping, Resillience, And Social Support

Question 1

Approach oriented coping

Answer 1

The tendency to Cope with stressful events by tackling them directly and attempting to develop solutions

May ultimately be an especially effective method of coping, although it may produce accompanying distress

Question 2

Avoidance oriented coping

Answer 2

The tendency to cope with threatening events by withdrawing, minimizing, or avoiding them;

Believed to be an effective short-term, though not an effective long-term response to stress

Question 3

Buffering hypothesis

Answer 3

The hypothesis that coping resources are useful primarily under conditions of high stress, and not necessarily under conditions of low stress

Question 4

Control enhancing interventions

Answer 4

Interventions with patients who are awaiting treatment for the purpose of enhancing their perceptions of control over those treatments

Interventions include information, relaxation and cognitive behavioral techniques, such as learning to think differently about the unpleasant sensations to reduce anxiety, improve coping, and promote recovery

Question 5

Coping strategies

Answer 5

Process of attempting to address the demands of a specific stressful experience

Question 6

Coping style

Answer 6

And individuals preferred style of dealing with stressful situations

Question 7

Direct effects hypothesis

Answer 7

The theory that coping resources, such as social support have beneficial psychological and health effects under conditions of both high stress and low stress

Question 8

Emotion focused coping

Answer 8

Efforts to regulate emotions associated with a stressful encounter

Question 9

Emotional support

Answer 9

Indications from other people that one is loved and valued and cared for

Believed to be an important aspect of social support during times of stress

Question 10

Informational support

Answer 10

The provision of information to a person experiencing stress by friends, family, and other people in the individuals, social network

Believed to help reduce the distressing and health compromising effects of stress

Question 11

Invisible support

Answer 11

Support received from another person that is outside the recipients awareness

Question 12

Matching hypothesis

Answer 12

The hypothesis that social support is helpful to an individual to the extent that the kind of support offered satisfies the individuals specific needs

Question 13

Negative affectivity

Answer 13

A Personality variable marked by a pervasive negative mood, including anxiety, depression, and hostility

Believe to be implicated in the experience of symptoms, the seeking of medical treatment and possibly illness

Question 14

Problem focused coping

Answer 14

Attempts to do something constructive about the stressful situations that are harming or threatening to an individual

Question 15

Psychological control

Answer 15

The perception that one has at one’s disposal a response that will reduce minimize illuminate, or offset the adverse effects of an unpleasant event, such as a medical procedure

Essentially, ones belief that their behavior can influence the environment and bring about a desired outcome

Question 16

Self-esteem

Answer 16

A global evaluation of one’s qualities and attributes

Question 17

Social support

Answer 17

Information from other people that one is loved, and cared for steamed and valued and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation

Question 18

Stress carriers

Answer 18

Individuals who create stress for others, without necessarily increasing their own levels of stress

Question 19

Stress management

Answer 19

A problem for dealing with stress, in which people learn how they appraise a stressful event, develop skills for coping with stress and practice putting these skills into effect

Programs typically involve 3 stages
1. Learn what stress is
2. Aquire skills to cope with stress
3. Practice skills in targeted situations

Question 20

Stress moderators

Answer 20

Internal and external resources and vulnerabilities that modify how stress is experienced and it’s effects

Essentially how aspects of life effect your level of stress for a given situation

Question 21

Tangible assistance

Answer 21

The provision of material support by one person to another, such as services, financial assistance or goods

Question 22

Time management

Answer 22

Skills for learning, how to use one time more effectively to accomplish ones goals

Question 23

Negative affectivity is related to

Answer 23

Poor health, including such chronic disorder is as arthritis, diabetes chronic pain, and coronary artery disease and

Are also at higher risk for addiction and poor coping skills

Question 24

Life orientation test (LOT-R)

Answer 24

Created by Scheir and colleagues

A measure of dispositional optimism that identifies generalized positive expectations about the future

Question 25

Collective control

Answer 25

Construct that maintains that through collaboration with family and friends, or a medical practitioner, that one will be successfully able to cope with a stressful event

Question 26

Perceived control

Answer 26

Closely related to self efficacy, which is a more narrow believe that one’s actions to obtain a specific outcome in a specific situation will be successful

Question 27

The BRIEF COPE

Answer 27

Assesses commonly used coping strategies for managing stressful events. People write how they are coping with a stressful event by answering items on a scale from 0 to 3.

0 being (I haven’t been doing this at all)

3 being (I’ve been doing this a lot)

Question 28

Communal coping

Answer 28

Collective effort of members of a connected network to manage a distressing event

Question 29

Mindfulness meditation

Answer 29

Goal of helping people approach, stressful situations mindfully rather than reacting to them automatically

Question 30

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)

Answer 30

Intervention that incorporates, mindful awareness and acceptance with the fundamental premise, that pain, grief and illness are inevitable elements of life

Promotes psychological flexibility and committed pursuit of core values and life goals rather than striving to eliminate or escape life’s troubles

Question 31

Expressive writing and how it effects stress

Answer 31

Research has shown that people who experience traumatic and stressful events about their lives will have less psychological issues after writing