Self-Assessment: How do you cope with stressful situations?

Self-Assessment: How do you cope with stressful situations?
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Activity: How do you cope with stressful situations?

The source of this scale is: Based on information in: K. Lyne and D. Roger, "A Psychometric Re-assessment of the COPE Questionnaire," Personality and Individual Differences, 29 (2000), pp. 321-335; P. P Vitaliano, J. Russo, J. E. Carr, R. D. Maiuro, and J. Becker, "The Ways of Coping Checklist: Revision and Psychometric Properties," Multivariate Behavioral Research, 20 (1985), pp. 3-26.

People cope with difficult, stressful, or upsetting situations in a variety of ways. This self-assessment is designed to help you to estimate your preferred styles of coping.
Read each statement in this instrument and select the response that best indicates how much you tend to react in that way when faced with a difficult, stressful, or upsetting situation. This instrument has 16 statements.

	Tried to figure out how to resolve the problem.
	Acted as though nothing happened, hoping it would go away.
	Sought the support and guidance of other people.
	Got upset or angry with the people who caused the problem.
	Changed something so the situation would improve.
	Avoided the problem by sleeping, watching TV, or engaging in other diversionary activities more than usual.
	Asked someone I respected for advice.
	Tried to get back at those who created the trouble.
	Came up with a couple of strategies to make the situation better.
	Kept my concerns and emotions about the situation to myself.
	Talked to friends or family about my circumstances.
	Figured out who was responsible for what happened.
	Doubled my effort to correct the situation and achieve my objective.
	Put off dealing with the matter.
	Got sympathy and understanding from someone.
	Made sure that those responsible for the problem received their due punishment.

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