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Emotion-focused coping, one of the main coping modes, functions to regulate (tolerate, reduce, or eliminate) the physiological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral reactions that accompany the experience of stressful encounters.
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The conceptualization of emotion-focused coping was introduced by Lazarus and Folkman (1984) in the framework of their cognitive model of stress and coping. According to this model, coping strategies are initiated when people encounter stressful events such as daily hassles (e.g., discovering a flat tire in one’s car, or being treated rudely by an official), life events (e.g., spouse illness, or being fired from work), or large-scale threatening events involving a great number of people (e.g., natural disasters and terror attacks). When such stressful encounters present demands that tax or exceed the person’s resources, the situation is appraised as a threat and/or loss, and these appraisals result in...
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Ben-Zur, H. (2020). Emotion-Focused Coping. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_512
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