Exam 15: Stress, Coping, and Health

Research results indicate that most New Year's resolutions are made for five or more consecutive years before they are successfully accomplished, suggesting that an important factor in effective behaviour change is the ________________.

Gene is a child who recently immigrated to Canada from a war-torn country where he lived in several refugee camps. Before arriving in Canada, he witnessed many atrocities and was frequently worried about his safety and the safety of his family. After immigrating, he was constantly anxious during school and suffered from frequent nightmares. A school psychologist would most likely conclude that Gene has

A friend of yours has a heightened tendency to experience negative emotions and often finds himself in stressful situations. We would probably predict that he is high in

A multimodal treatment approach to substance abuse may include such interventions as marital and family counselling.

Robert Baron and his colleagues conducted a study of people whose spouses were being treated for cancer. Those who rated themselves as having good social support responded to the injection of artificial antigens with more antibodies, demonstrating how strong social support appears to enhance

How severe is the problem of relapse in substance abuse treatment?

J.T. is facing a lot of stress and has decided to use a problem-focused coping strategy. Most likely, J.T. is

Cross-cultural research has suggested that Hispanics and Asians tend to use emotion-focused coping and social support more than North Americans and Europeans do.

Research suggests that higher levels of social support are ________.

Which of the following is NOT a major way of coping with stress as identified by the text?

Which of the following examples is not consistent with the concept of harm reduction?

A particularly important implication of the transtheoretical model is that ________.

A person has a problem with smoking. If the best stage-matched intervention was to inform him about the dangers of continuing this unhealthy behaviour, then this person would be in the _____________ stage of change.

What kinds of behaviour change procedures are employed in multimodal treatments for substance abuse?

Poor coping skills and the lack of a social support network can decrease a person's resistance to stress and are examples of _____________.

Resilience is another term for hardiness.

If someone attempts to directly deal with and change the demands of stress-inducing situations, s/he is involved in the process of ____________________.

The three stages of Selye's general adaptation syndrome (GAS) are

Which of the following results was found in the alcohol harm reduction study conducted with college students?

Which of the following substance abuse intervention techniques is most likely to achieve the majority of its positive effects by asking questions that focus on discrepancies between the current state of affairs and individuals' ideal self-images, desired behaviours, and desired outcomes?