PS271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Attachment Theory, Attachment In Adults, Mary Ainsworth
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Types: reality anxiety or objecive anxiety- response to a perceived threat in the real world, neuroic anxiety- experienced when unacceptable id impulses are dangerously close to breaking into consciousness. Women report using more coping strategies than men. Dividing coping strategies into those in which: people take an acive role to deal with the problem, people try to avoid the problem. Separaing the acive-role strategies into those: aimed at the source of the stress, focused on the emoional reacion to the experience. Problem-focused strategies: intended to take care of the problem and thereby overcoming the anxiety, studying for the inal instead of talking about how you feel about it. Emoion-focused strategies: designed to reduce the emoional distress that accompanies the problem, talking about your feelings. Avoidance strategies: people deal with their emoions by pushing the anxiety-provoking situaion out of awareness. Acive strategies: more efecive in helping people cope with stressors than avoidance strategies.
