PSYC 3690 Chapter : Article 19 - Coping.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3690
• Professor: Benjamin Gottlieb

Document Summary

Lazarus & s. folkman, stress, appraisal, and coping (pp. It is process oriented rather than trait-oriented, as reflected in the words. Constantly changing and specific demands and conflicts: this definition implies a distinction between coping and automatized adaptive behavior by limiting coping to demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding a person"s resources. Managing can include minimizing, avoiding, tolerating, and accepting the stressful conditions as well as attempts to master the environment. Coping thoughts and actions are always directed toward particular conditions. To understand coping, and to evaluate it, we need to know what the person is coping with. It is difficult to see how the unfolding nature of most stressful encounters, and the concomitant changes in coping, could be adequately described by a static measure of a general trait or personality disposition. We refer to the former as problem-focused coping and the latter as emotion-focused coping.