Exam 5: Coping With Stress

According to the text,some researchers have proposed that mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques are effective because they reduce people's tendency toward ruminating over stressful experiences.This statement exemplifies:

People who are optimistic:

Which factor mitigates the detrimental health effects of negative affectivity?

According to the text,cultivating gratitude is an effective way to develop:

What is the premise of cognitive-behavioral therapy,and how is this therapy applied to stress management?

Which of these is NOT true of coping?

According to the _____ hypothesis,social support enhances the body's physical responses to challenging situations.

Define dispositional affect,optimism,and psychological control.How do these personal factors affect one's ability to cope with potential stressors,and how do they affect health and well-being?

Which of these is NOT a documented health benefit of perceiving strong social support?

Which of these is NOT a stages of stress inoculation training?

The consideration of coping as a dynamic process implies that coping involves:

Define coping,and differentiate problem-focused coping from emotion-focused coping.Give a specific example demonstrating under what circumstances each type of coping might be seen as most appropriately adaptive.

Emotion-focused efforts would theoretically be most effective in coping with the worry and stress caused by:

Which statement regarding the impact of socioeconomic status (SES)on health and well-being is FALSE?

Optimism can diminish stress-related elevations in hypertension,inflammation,and immunosuppression by:

Coping is best defined as:

What do Martin Seligman's "ABCs" of optimism stand for?

When Marisa is feeling stressed,she seeks support and encouragement from her friends instead of obsessing over the stressors in her life.By doing this,she feels less stress and her coping skills are significantly improved.This example demonstrates the:

How do people use meaning-focused coping?

Researchers have found that people who perceive they have strong social support are less likely to ruminate about their plight when confronting stressors than are people who feel more alienated from others.This finding supports the: