Coping Mechanisms Quiz

What are coping mechanisms?

• Techniques to ignore emotional health

• Methods used to deal with stress or conflict

• Ways to avoid stress

• Strategies to increase stress levels

What are adaptive coping mechanisms?

• Ways to increase stress levels

• Negative ways people alleviate stress

• Positive ways people alleviate stress

• Methods to ignore emotional health

What is anticipation as a coping mechanism?

• Reducing stress by preparing for a difficult challenge

• Ignoring stress by avoiding challenges

• Creating stress by overthinking challenges

• Denying the existence of challenges

What is seeking support as a coping mechanism?

• Avoiding emotional support from others

• Denying the need for emotional support

• Finding emotional support from others

• Blaming others for emotional support

What is problem-solving as a coping mechanism?

• Denying the existence of the problem

• Blaming others for the problem and refusing to find solutions

• Avoiding the source of the problem and ignoring solutions

• Focusing on locating the source of the problem and determining solutions

What is humor as a coping mechanism?

• Denying the existence of a stressful situation

• Ignoring the tension of a stressful situation

• Intensifying the tension of a stressful situation

• Diffusing the tension of a stressful situation

What are maladaptive coping mechanisms?

• Methods to ignore emotional health

• Ways to increase stress levels

• Positive ways people alleviate stress

• Negative ways people alleviate stress

What is denial as a coping mechanism?

• Refusal to accept truth or fact

• Accepting truth or fact

• Ignoring the existence of truth or fact

• Blaming others for truth or fact

What is projection as a coping mechanism?

• Denying the need for emotions

• Blaming someone else for having an emotion that they feel is unacceptable

• Ignoring the existence of emotions

• Accepting responsibility for one's own emotions

What is dissociation as a coping mechanism?

• Ignoring the existence of a traumatic or stressful event

• Blaming others for a traumatic or stressful event

• Trying to intensify a traumatic or stressful event

• Trying to 'disconnect' from a traumatic or stressful event