PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Stress Management, Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Situation Two

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerald Goldberg, Miranda Di Lorenzo, Nikoo Norouzian, JongJin Kim, Eden Champagne

Document Summary

Personal stress management: building and resiliency and coping. Proactive coping vs. reactive coping proactive coping is getting ready to deal with life"s challenges reactive coping occurs when life"s challenges happen and you decide how to react. Adaptive coping vs. maladaptive coping adaptive coping generally involves confronting problems directly. Maladaptive coping involves participating in negative behaviours such as getting drunk or harming yourself. Task-oriented coping it involves taking direct action to alter the situation itself to reduce the amount of stress it evokes. Emotional-oriented coping type of stress management that attempts to reduce negative emotional responses that occur due to exposure to stressors. Avoidance-oriented coping running away from instead of facing an issue. Indulging oneself largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions, such as anxiety and guilt. Constructive coping refers to relatively healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events. Role: ambiguity, conflict, overload, no participation in decision making, etc.