Explain the Difference in Primary and Secondary Appraisal of Stressors

question 98

Essay

Explain the difference in primary and secondary appraisal of stressors and give an example of
each; and then explain the difference in problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping
and under what stressful conditions each should be used to effectively cope.

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Definitions:

Inductive Argument

A type of reasoning that constructs or evaluates propositions that are abstractions of observations of individual instances.

Generalization

A broad statement or concept obtained by inferring from specific cases.

Subset

A part of a larger group of related things, where every member of the subset is also a member of the larger group.

Biased Poll

A survey that leads to skewed or unrepresentative results due to its design or the way questions are asked.