Coping With Stress in Middle and Late Adolescence Flashcards
It is the state of mental, emotional strain, or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances
Stress
It is also a reaction of the mind and body to a stimulus that disturbs the well-being, state of calm, or equilibrium of a person
Stress
It is a type of stress that challenges and motivate a person to find creative solutions to their concerns
Eustress
It is a type of stress that becomes so overwhelming and leads to a sense of helplessness and exhaustion
Distress
These types of stress can motivate, energize, and spur an individual into fruitful action
Healthy Stress
Encountering failure or frustration in one’s field, one overemphasizes another. It is also applied to the process of overcorrecting for a disability or limitation
Compensation
It is the refusal to acknowledge some threat, which may take the form of distressing feelings or concrete danger
Denial
It is failing to recognize obvious implications or consequences of a thought, act, or situation
Denial
It is a change by which an instinctual drive is to be satisfied; shifting the emotional component from one object or idea to another
Displacement
When good fortune fails to knock at the door or knock at a neighbor’s instead
Sour-grapes
Plausible explanations make unpleasant happenings more acceptable
Sweet lemon
You revert back to an earlier level of development and earlier, less demanding behaviors, as a way of protecting yourself from having to confront the actual situation
Regression
It occurs when you transform your conflicted emotions, unmet desires, or unacceptable impulses into productive outlets
Sublimation
It is an act or communication which partially negates a previous one
Undoing
What type of coping removes the cause of the frustration in order to reduce the level of stress
Problem-focused Coping
