Anxiety and Coping strategies

n Coping is better than not coping

n People tend to use consistent coping styles

n active (more effective long-term)

n avoidant (some effect short-term)

n problem-focused (more effective if have control)

n emotion-focused (more effective if lack control)

n Coping flexibility may be most effective

Aggression

n Frustration and aggression

n Frustration is one cause of aggression

n Thoughts à neg. feelings à unpleasantness

n Displacing aggression

n Will aggress on innocent target when frustrated, particularly after minor annoyance

n Catharsis

n Aggression reduces arousal

n however increases further aggression

Attachment Styles

n Early attachment relationships provide basis for future relationships

n different attachment styles

n secure

n avoidant

n anxious-ambivalent

n attachment styles can change

An alternate model of attachment

Fear of abandonment

low high

low anxious/ambivalent

(fear secure preoccupied

of

closeness)

high avoidant/ disoriented/

dismissing fearful