PSYC 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Avoidance Coping, Positive Psychology, Perceived Control
Document Summary
Coping: the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional ways that people deal with stressful situations and includes any attempt to preserve mental and physical health even if it has limited value. Problem-focused coping: a coping strategy for dealing directly with a stressor, in which we either reduce the stressor"s demands or increase our resources for meeting its demands. Problem-focused strategies are more often linked with better health outcomes than emotion-focused ones. Has been shown to be more effective with chronic than acute stressors. Emotion-focused coping: a coping strategy in which we try to control our emotional response to a stressor. Rumination: repetitive focusing on the causes, meanings, and consequences of stressful experiences. Emotional cascade: becoming so focused on an upsetting event that one gets worked into an intense, painful state of negative emotion. Emotional-approach coping (eac): the process of working through, clarifying, and understanding the emotions triggered by a stressor. Women are more likely to choose emotion-focused coping mechanisms than men.
