Psychology › Section N · Stress, lifestyle, and health › Topic N.4
Coping with and regulating stress
Stress cannot be avoided, but how people deal with it changes how much harm it does. This topic covers the main ways of coping, why a sense of control matters so much, how other people protect us, and which stress-reduction techniques have evidence behind them.
In this topic
- What coping means
- Problem-focused and emotion-focused coping
- Worked example: matching coping to control
- Perceived control
- Learned helplessness
- Worked example: the attributional reformulation
- Social support
- Discrimination as a chronic stressor
- Exercise as stress regulation
- Relaxation, biofeedback and mindfulness
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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