PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14.3: Viktor Frankl, Nun Study, James W. Pennebaker

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

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Writing about how an event makes you feel is one of the best strategies for coping and regaining the emotional resources needed to move on, according to pennebaker. Ability to cope with stress dictates whether or not you are happy. Coping refers to the processes used to manage demands, stress, and con ict. Some of us cope by taking a problem-solving approach to the stressor but there are times when you have to focus on the emotional effects because there is no solution. Problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping are used to deal with stressors. Some coping techniques do not help and just replace one problem with another, such as smoking to avoid feelings of stress. Personality and coping: the big five have their own effects on how a person copes with stress and adversity, neuroticism. People high in this have negative affectivity the tendency to respond to problems with a pattern of anxiety, hostility, anger, guilt, or nervousness.