Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Avoidance Coping, Learned Helplessness, Stress Management
16 May 2019
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Coping = efforts to master, reduce, or tolerate the demands created by stress. People cope with stress in many ways: one review of the literature found more than 400 distinct coping techniques, carver four important distinctions or groupings. National survey by apa found that 20% of americans do nothing to manage their stress. Most adaptive to use variety of coping strategies: a lot to choose from but, most people come to rely on some coping strategies more than others. Note: generalizations about adaptive value of various coping strategies based on trends identified by research no coping strategy can garuntee success: adaptive value of a coping technique depends on the exact nature of the situation. Some of coping tactics are helpful in certain circumstances, but more often they"re counterproductive. When researchers made similar manipulations with human subjects using inescapable noise (rather than shock) as the stressor, they observed parallel results.
