Before his examinations, Raju gathers information about the syllabus and weighs other study plans and their likely results. The coping strategy he is using, as given by Endler and Parker, also involves which of the following?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Deciding priorities and acting to deal directly with the situation
Option (1) Efforts to maintain hope and to control one's emotions — Incorrect. Keeping hope and controlling emotions belong to the emotion-oriented strategy. Raju is working on the problem.
Option (2) Conscious suppression of stressful thoughts — Incorrect. Suppressing stressful thoughts is part of the avoidance-oriented strategy, which denies or minimises the situation.
Option (3) Deciding priorities and acting to deal directly with the situation — Correct. Gathering information and weighing alternatives mark the task-oriented strategy. The same strategy also means deciding priorities and acting to deal directly with the problem.
Option (4) Limiting emotional disruption with minimal effort to alter the event — Incorrect. This describes emotion-focused coping in the Lazarus and Folkman model.
NCERT (2026-27): “COPING WITH STRESS … “Emotion-oriented Strategy : This can involve efforts to maintain hope and to control one’s emotions; it can also involve venting feelings of anger and frustration, or deciding that nothing can be done to change things. For example, tell myself that it is not really happening to me, or worry about what I am going to do.” |