PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Extraversion And Introversion
27 Apr 2018
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Coping
Coping Strategies
- The process by which people try to manage (master, reduce, tolerate) the perceived discrepancy
between the demands and resources they appraise in a stressful situation
Horrible strategies
- Giving up and blaming oneself
- You believe that ou a’t do it
- You eliee that ou are’t good eough
- Striking out at others
- Blame others
- Self-indulgence
- Something bad happens we have reduced impulse control
- Our brain does its best to make us happy
- Defensive coping
- Denying reality (also referred to as repressive)
- Most harmful to their health
- Flee from the situation that is causing stress
- Find reasons not to do the situation that they feel will cause them stress
Constructive/Good strategies
- Relatively healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events
- 3 key areas
- Confront problems directly
- Make sure the coping is task-relevant
- Make sure it’s atio-oriented
- This is a conscious effort to rationally evaluate your options so that you can try to solve
your problems
- Be reasonable
- Start with a realistic appraisal of your stress, and of your coping resources
- Fid a a the situatio that is ausig stress is’t so ig
- Self deception may be helpful in the short term, but not in the long term
- Reogize he ou’re eig aladaptie
- Ignoring your problem?
- Distracting yourself or making yourself feel better without addressing the
problem
- Learn to recognize and regulate disruptive emotional reactions to stress, so you can
focus more on constructive coping
- Resilience
- People not only cope with a negative event, they are transformed by the experience
- Some people show positive response patterns and thrive
- Resilience trajectory seems to be the most common way people respond to adversity
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Document Summary
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