Chapter 7 - Coping, Resillience, And Social Support Flashcards
Approach oriented coping
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
Avoidance oriented coping
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
Buffering hypothesis
The hypothesis that coping resources are useful primarily under conditions of high stress, and not necessarily under conditions of low stress
Control enhancing interventions
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
Coping strategies
Process of attempting to address the demands of a specific stressful experience
Coping style
And individuals preferred style of dealing with stressful situations
Direct effects hypothesis
The theory that coping resources, such as social support have beneficial psychological and health effects under conditions of both high stress and low stress
Emotion focused coping
Efforts to regulate emotions associated with a stressful encounter
Emotional support
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
Informational support
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
Invisible support
Support received from another person that is outside the recipients awareness
Matching hypothesis
The hypothesis that social support is helpful to an individual to the extent that the kind of support offered satisfies the individuals specific needs
Negative affectivity
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
Problem focused coping
Attempts to do something constructive about the stressful situations that are harming or threatening to an individual
Psychological control
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
Self-esteem
A global evaluation of one’s qualities and attributes
Social support
Information from other people that one is loved, and cared for steamed and valued and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation
Stress carriers
Individuals who create stress for others, without necessarily increasing their own levels of stress
Stress management
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
Stress moderators
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
Tangible assistance
The provision of material support by one person to another, such as services, financial assistance or goods
Time management
Skills for learning, how to use one time more effectively to accomplish ones goals
Negative affectivity is related to
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
Life orientation test (LOT-R)
Created by Scheir and colleagues
A measure of dispositional optimism that identifies generalized positive expectations about the future
Collective control
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
Perceived control
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
The BRIEF COPE
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)
Communal coping
Collective effort of members of a connected network to manage a distressing event
Mindfulness meditation
Goal of helping people approach, stressful situations mindfully rather than reacting to them automatically
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
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
Expressive writing and how it effects stress
Research has shown that people who experience traumatic and stressful events about their lives will have less psychological issues after writing
