The agency, which conducted a study that found successful caseworkers were able to make decisions when confronted with stressful situations, will incorporate those findings into the interview process, the commissioner said.
In that sense, this study is interested in verifying how the elderly could maintain their levels of happiness, even when confronted with stressful events.
It may be assumed that girls of the 'high pain class' were more often confronted with stressful life events without being able to use functional coping strategies.
Just as for the girls' subsample, this finding may also be explained by a lack of effective coping strategies when being confronted with stressful situations, i.e., life events.
Confronted by stressful or damaging changes in their environment, populations of cells activate a programme that raises their mutation rate for several generations but temporarily masks the mutant phenotypes.
Shame is a feeling the individual tries to handle, using various strategies, and we found that the suicide victims exhibited specific ways of behavior when confronted with stressful conflicts, including avoidance of discussion of problems with parents, somatic complaints and irritability.
Note that this comes close to a diathesis-stress account of psychopathology, which implies that emotional and behavioral problems only develop in vulnerable children (i.e., children with high levels of negative affectivity and/or poor regulative skills) when they are confronted with stressful or challenging events [ 56].
My default setting when confronted with a stressful situation is to go on radio silence to everyone around me until I feel like I've got a good grasp of the situation at hand.
Studies in developmental toxicity have shown that subtle developmental alterations are easier to detect when subjects confront challenging or stressful situations (Cory-Slechta 1990; Rice and Baron 2000).
The Brief COPE is a 28-item questionnaire allowing to distinguish 14 distinct coping strategies when confronted with a stressful event.
