Your Manager Calls You into Her Office and Informs You

question 3

Multiple Choice

Your manager calls you into her office and informs you that "the company has to let you go" (i.e.,you have been fired) .You do not make a big deal of this event because in two weeks,you are moving out of town.Your response best reflects which component of Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) transactional model?

• A) appraisal
• B) problem-focused coping
• C) emotion-focused coping
• D) cognition-focused coping

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Definitions:

Cultural Relativism

The principle that an individual's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in the context of that individual's own culture.

Folkways

Norms or customary behaviors that are socially approved but not morally significant, dictating appropriate manners and actions in daily routines and interactions.

Severe Punishment

Harsh or extreme disciplinary actions taken in response to an individual's wrongdoing, often intended as a deterrent against future offenses.

Norms

The unwritten rules or standards of behavior considered acceptable within a society or social group.