Coping with Stress
Emotion- focused Coping
Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reactions.
Problem- focused Coping
Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.
System for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back info regarding a subtle physiological state.
Biofeedback
Relaxation
Can alleviate headaches, hypertension, anxiety, and insomnia.
Meditation
Can decrease heart rate and oxygen consumption.
Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.
Coping
Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reactions.
Emotion- focused Coping
Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness.
Aerobic Exercise
Coping
Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.
Can decrease heart rate and oxygen consumption.
Meditation
2 Explanatory Styles
Optimistic or Pessimistic
Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.
Problem- focused Coping
Can alleviate headaches, hypertension, anxiety, and insomnia.
Relaxation
Aerobic Exercise
Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness.
Biofeedback
System for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back info regarding a subtle physiological state.
