Nancy, Like Many in Her Family, Has a Tendency to Be

question 62

Multiple Choice

Nancy, like many in her family, has a tendency to be impulsive, to make rash decisions, and to act without thinking about possible outcomes. As a result, she sometimes finds herself buying luxury items she cannot afford or making less-than-healthy relationship decisions, which, in turn, results in her experiencing higher levels of stress that lead to her making more impulsive decisions. This illustrates the

• A) direction of causation between diatheses and stress
• B) independent nature of diathesis and stress
• C) reduction of diathesis by stress
• D) interaction of diathesis and stress

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