How to manage stress

Question 1

Conversion

Answer 1

Involves repressing anxiety and transferring it into nonorganic symptoms …e.g. loss of appetite, difficulty sleeping

Question 2

Compensation

Answer 2

Individual makes up for a deficit by strongly emphasising another feature e.g. a person who is a poor communicator relies on organisational skills.

Question 3

Denial

Answer 3

Avoiding emotional conflicts by refusing to consciously acknowledge anything that causes intolerable emotional pain.

Question 4

Disassociation

Answer 4

Subjective numbness and less awareness of surroundings.

Question 5

Displacement

Answer 5

Transferring emotions, ideas or wishes from a stressful situation to a less stressful situation. e.g. transferring anger to destroying a computer.

Question 6

These are Ego-defence mechanism

Answer 6

A subconscious way to regulate emotional distresses.. provides psychological protection from anxiety and stress, indirectly.

Question 7

Regression

Answer 7

Coping with a stressor through actions and behaviours associated with an earlier developmental period e.g. bed wetting.

Question 8

Identification

Answer 8

Copying another behaviour pattern of another person