Bustillo, John Gelmarck B.

Psychological Assessment
BS-Psychology 3-A Sir Omar Marohomsalic

Coping Mechanism

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Please indicate your degree of agreement or disagreement with each statement using the 5-point scale
below

5- Strongly Agree

4-Agree

3-Neutral

2-Disagree

1-Strongly disagree

Coping Mechanisms

5 4 3 2 1
Self-Control
I tend to remain calm under stress
I don’t easily get stress
I can handle myself when in stress
Even in times of stress, I can easily cope up with it
I am flexible enough to cope up to life stresses
Confrontation
I can face the problems
I am capable of resolving problems
I can retaliate to change situations
I can confront every problems I face
I can face pressures
Social support
I usually talk to other people when I have a problem
I always look for social connections
I am comfortable to seek social support
I think social support helps me to survive in difficult time
I always seek those reliable people I know in during hard time
Emotional distancing
I stay indifferent during current hard time situations
I want to prevent the distress by emotionally distancing
I don’t like the distress to ruin my actions
Bustillo, John Gelmarck B. Psychological Assessment
BS-Psychology 3-A Sir Omar Marohomsalic

I don’t like to make actions when stressed

I stay neutral when I get distressed
Escape and avoidance
I avoid the existence of stress
I usually escape the existence of stress
I usually suppress stresses
I don’t like to talk about my problems
I don’t want to think about my problems
Radical acceptance
I face my problems
I accept my problems
I am adaptive to every problems I face
I choose to face my problems
I don’t fear facing my problems

Coping Mechanisms
Coping mechanisms are the strategies people often use in the face of stress and/or trauma to
help manage painful or difficult emotions. Coping mechanisms can help people adjust to stressful events
while helping them maintain their emotional well-being.

Macro-analytic state-oriented theories

Lazarus and Folkman (1984), one of the pioneers of the coping theory, defined coping as:
constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and internal demands
that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the resources of the person. The defense mechanisms
mentioned by Freud (1926) is one of the earliest macro-analytic state-oriented methods of coping.
Another approach that gained popularity in this area is the theory of Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman.
These include: Self-control, confrontation, social support,emotional distancing, escape and avoidance,
radical acceptance, positive reappraisal and strategic-problem solving.

Self-Control – where we try to control our emotions in response to stress.

Confrontation – where we face the pressure and retaliate to change the situation and bring it back to
our favor.
Social support – where we talk to others and look for social connections to help us survive a difficult
time.
Emotional distancing – where we stay indifferent to what is going on around and prevent the distress
from controlling our actions.
Escape and avoidance – where we deny the existence of stress as a coping response.
Radical acceptance – where one resorts to unconditional self-acceptance for adapting to adversity.

REFERENCES:
Bustillo, John Gelmarck B. Psychological Assessment
BS-Psychology 3-A Sir Omar Marohomsalic

Good Therapy (n.d). Coping Mechanisms. https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/coping-

mechanisms

Chowdhury, M. R (2021). What is Coping Theory?. https://positivepsychology.com/coping-theory/