While Walking Through an Abandoned Area of Town, You Hear

question 11

Multiple Choice

While walking through an abandoned area of town, you hear a deafening alarm sounding from an empty warehouse. Under which condition is this situation hypothesized to be most stressful?

• A) you know there is nothing you can do to stop the alarm
• B) you use emotion-focused coping before problem-focused coping
• C) you use problem-focused coping before emotion-focused coping
• D) you think you could stop the alarm if you could reach it, but you can't reach it

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Definitions:

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