PSY 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Learned Helplessness, Explanatory Style, Internet Addiction Disorder
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Coping refers to efforts to master, reduce, or tolerate the demands created by stress . People cope with stress in many ways. It is the most adaptive to use a variety of coping strategies. Coping strategies vary in their adaptive values. People may develop learned helplessness - passive behavior produced by. Sometimes, it is then transferred to situations in which the person is not really exposure to unavoidable aversive events helpless. This then creates a passive reaction to stressful events, rather than active. Cognitive interpretation of aversive events may determine whether we feel helpless or problem solving not. People with a pessimistic explanatory style view aversive events as out of. This coping strategy is called behavioral disengagement and is associated with their control , feel helpless, and give up increased distress. The concept of giving up may be culturally determined. Our competitive culture discourages giving up, and places a negative value on it universally.
