Psychology 2035A/B Chapter 4: Coping Processes

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Psych2035 chapter 4: coping processes: coping: efforts to master, reduce, or tolerate the demands created by stress. People cope with stress in different ways. Carver, scheier, and weintraub found that they could sort their participants" coping tactics into 14 categories. Its most adaptive to use a variety of coping strategies: come to rely on some strategies more than others. Flexibility in coping is more desirable than consistently relying on the same strategy. Increased resilience and decreased distress during stressful events. Flexible copers can differentiate among stressful events in terms controllability and impact, which is important information to know when choosing a coping strategy. Avoid being in a rut of problematic strategy. Coping strategies show only moderate stability across varied situations. Coping strategies vary in their adaptive value: how effective they are vs. how counterproductive, no strategy is guaranteed successful; depends on the situation.