5 Written Questions

1. advice, guidance
2. discrete, generally time-limited incidents with a beginning and an end
3. strategies that focus on the effect of the stressor on oneself and one's life; aimed at reducing personal harm and distress
4. expression emotions, venting; exercise; escae and distraction; meditation and prayer; food, drugs, alcohol; denial
5. friends and family; counselor or religious advisor; cultural traditions, beliefs, rituals, narratives; group/microsystems; specific programs; recreation center

5 Matching Questions

1. Examples of material resources
2. Tangible support
3. Multidimensionality
4. Stressors
5. Resources/mediators

1. a resources/protective factors (material, social, and personal factors that promote health and can buffer the impact of stress exposure on well-being; associated with positive adaptational outcomes); resources are interrelated; resources are often determined by contextual, cultural, and sociopolitical factors; resources can simultaneously be a source of stress
2. b concrete assistance, material resources
3. c money, food, transportation
4. d stimuli that influence various outcome states; life experiences and conditions of life; person-environment transactions reflecting external demands or circumstances; tax or exceed existing personal and social resources; vary in duration, severity, quantity, personal meaning, and point of impact; threaten or result in harm or loss
5. e relationships in which the two persons involved do a number of things togehter and share a number of role relationships

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. expressing in story form a description and explanaiton of the focal problem, and an explicit guide to recovery or to coping
   1. Community narratives
   2. Daily hassles
   3. Life transitions
   4. Contextual factors
2. these seek to reduce the incidence of personal problems in living, mental disorders, adn illness, or to promote health, personal development or academic achievement
   1. Stress and adaptation framework
   2. Prevention and promotion programs
   3. Interventions that promote coping
   4. Dimensions of stressors
3. aspects of teh physical environment or tangible factors that can be purchased or provided by others
   1. Coping responses
   2. Resilience
   3. Examples of material resources
   4. Material resources
4. seeking information, increased effort, conflict resolution, utilizing resources
   1. Problem-focused coping
   2. Exapmles of meaning-focused coping
   3. Cognitive forms of problem-focused copoing
   4. Behavior forms of problem-focused coping
5. generalized support, specific support
   1. Two major forms of social support
   2. Group context of generalized support
   3. Companionship support
   4. Sources of support

5 True/False Questions

1. Personal context of generalized support → social integration, sense of community, breadth of support networks

   True        False

2. Stress and adaptation framework → influential theoretical framework in psychology that examines the role of life experience in adaptational outcomes; comprehensive ecological model that is consistent with a community psychology paradigm; stress is an ecological concept because it involves understanding people in their contexts

   True        False

3. Issues in social support → relationships can be supportive and stressful; multidimensional vs unidimensional; reciprocity; density

   True        False

4. Cognitive forms of problem-focused copoing → planning, analying, decision-making

   True        False

5. Problem-focused coping → strategies that address the stressor directly; active, goal-oriented strategies; most effective when the stressor is controllable

   True        False