Human Strengths And Meeting Life Challenges — Psychology STD 12 Humanities — Question

Problem-focused strategy

1. Attack the problem itself.
2. With behaviours designated to gain information.
3. To alter the event and to alter belief and commitments.
4. They increase the person's awareness, level of knowledge and range of behavioural and cognitive coping options. They can act to reduce the threat value of the event.

Emotion focusses strategy

1. Call for psychological changes.
2. Designated to limit the degree of emotional disruption caused by an event.
3. With minimal effort to alter the event itself.

While both problem focussed and emotion focussed strategies are necessary when facing stressful situations, research suggests that people generally tend to use the former more often than the latter.