CRP Stress Management & Coping Strategies 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which of the following is an example of an emotion-focused coping strategy?
- Creating a project timeline to meet a deadline
- Seeking information about a medical diagnosis
- Practicing gratitude journaling to manage anxiety (Correct answer)
- Delegating tasks to reduce workload
Correct answer: Practicing gratitude journaling to manage anxiety
Emotion-focused coping targets managing the emotional response to a stressor rather than changing the stressor itself, such as journaling to process feelings.
Question 2: A CRP practitioner notices a client exhibits high allostatic load. This term most accurately describes:
- Acute stress from a single traumatic event
- Cumulative wear and tear from chronic stress (Correct answer)
- Genetic predisposition to stress sensitivity
- Temporary exhaustion after peak performance
Correct answer: Cumulative wear and tear from chronic stress
Allostatic load refers to the cumulative physiological wear and tear on the body resulting from repeated or chronic stress exposure.
Question 3: Which inventory is most commonly used to quantify major life events as stressors that may impact health?
- Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
- Holmes and Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale (Correct answer)
- Maslach Burnout Inventory
- Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale
Correct answer: Holmes and Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale
The Holmes and Rahe Scale assigns numerical values to major life events and correlates total scores with risk of stress-related illness.
Question 4: What distinguishes adaptive coping from maladaptive coping in resilience frameworks?
- Adaptive coping is faster but less effective long-term
- Adaptive coping reduces distress without causing secondary harm (Correct answer)
- Maladaptive coping always involves substance use
- Adaptive coping requires professional guidance to implement
Correct answer: Adaptive coping reduces distress without causing secondary harm
Adaptive coping reduces distress effectively without introducing new problems, while maladaptive coping may temporarily relieve stress but causes secondary harm.
Question 5: In the context of resilience training, 'stress inoculation training' (SIT) was developed by:
- Aaron Beck
- Donald Meichenbaum (Correct answer)
- Martin Seligman
- Albert Ellis
Correct answer: Donald Meichenbaum
Donald Meichenbaum developed Stress Inoculation Training, a cognitive-behavioral intervention that prepares individuals to handle future stressors through graduated exposure.
Question 6: Which of the following best describes the concept of 'stress buffering' provided by social support?
- Social support eliminates the stressor entirely
- Social support reduces the perceived severity of and response to stressors (Correct answer)
- Social support increases stress tolerance by adding accountability
- Social support shifts stress from the individual to the group
Correct answer: Social support reduces the perceived severity of and response to stressors
The stress-buffering hypothesis holds that social support moderates the relationship between stress and health outcomes by reducing perceived threat and facilitating coping.
Question 7: A resilience professional conducting a stress audit finds that employees score highest on 'effort-reward imbalance.' Which model does this finding align with?
- Demand-Control-Support model
- Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) model (Correct answer)
- Conservation of Resources model
- Transactional Stress model
Correct answer: Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) model
The Effort-Reward Imbalance model, developed by Siegrist, posits that stress arises when high work effort is not matched by adequate rewards such as pay, esteem, or job security.
CRP Stress Management & Coping Strategies 3
Which of the following is an example of an emotion-focused coping strategy?