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 exam. 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

Answer:

The best answer to the question: According to the stress and coping paradigm, this is an example of:___, would be: emotion- focused coping.

Explanation:

Basically, stress is a response that humans have towards elements in life that can be seen as a stimulus, and which elicit a response from our bodies, both physically, physiologically and mentally. Because stress is basically interpreted by the body as a possible "threat" situation, the responses elicited are meant to "defend" the person from harm, and the entire body prepares itself in order to respond actively to that threat. However, human bodies are not meant to be in constant alarm, and physical and physiological, as well as mental, responses, need to be controlled, and for that, humans count with coping mechanisms that help the body respond appropriately and seek adaptation.

Around 1966, Richard Lazarus launched his Transactional Theory of Stress and Coping, and it proposed stress as a transaction between a person and his/her environment. Among the levels of coping proposed, lies the emotional coping mechanisms. In this case, screaming and releasing tension that has been caused by the situation is an emotional response you give to the condition you are in, and which helps you to emotionally cope with what you cannot change.