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

Strategies for coping with stress:
Given by Endler and Parker:
Task oriented strategy - Involves obtaining information about the stressful situation and about alternative course of action and their probable outcome.

Emotion oriented strategy – Efforts to maintain hope and to control one’s emotions also involves venting feeling of anger and frustration.

Avoidance oriented strategies - Denying or minimising the seriousness of the situation: also involves conscious suppression of stressful thoughts and their replacement by self protective thoughts.

By Lazarus and Folkman - Coping responses are of two types.

Problem focussed - Attack the problem itself. They increase the person’s awareness, level of knowledge. and range of behavioural and cognitive coping options.

Emotion focussed - Call for psychological changes designed primarily to limit the degree of emotional disruption caused by an event with minimal effort to alter the event it self.