Question

You wake up with the flu one morning, the day after you did poorly on a biology exam and the day you have a big psychology You look at your roommate and scream in frustration and then vent all your pent-up anger. According to the stress and coping paradigm, this is an example of?

Answer 1

Emotion-focused coping

Step-by-step explanation:

The emotion-focused coping strategy is consistent with the subject pushing the problem away with emotional responses. Individuals with this profile, when faced with a problem, tend to have negative thoughts and may blame themselves or someone else for the problem, dodge and avoid the stressful situation. We can say that the above question reports a situation where emotion-focused coping occurs because the individual when facing a stressful situation (not doing well on an exam, getting sick and having an important exam on the same day), he was so angry that he decided to scream to release his frustration.