PSYC 3690 Lecture Notes - 40 Minutes, Social Comparison Theory, Music Therapy
14 Apr 2013
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Venting - talk it out/emotional catharsis, cry. Develop a better strategy for the future. Sleep to escape - forget about it. Tell yourself it could have been worse, count your blessings, look at how much more poorly others did (social comparison positive or negative), self-handicapping, denial, exception, i ll get a tutor. The basic de nition of coping is behavioural and cognitive efforts to manage environmental and/or internal demands and con icts among them which are appraised as taxing or exceeding a persons resources. Coping and the outcomes of coping are completely different. It s important not to confuse how someone is coping with the results of that coping. How could cope and how well you believe you are coping is different - subjective judgment of coping effectiveness. Sometimes it doesn t really matter how you cope, just the fact that you do cope. How do you distinguish between everyday ordinary behaviour and coping.
