Managing your emotions

In a questionnaire measuring people's use of cognitive emotion regulation strategies, the statement 'I often think about how horrible these circumstances have been' is likely to measure which cognitive strategy?

Rumination

Self-blame

Blaming others

Catastrophizing

In the questionnaire developed by Nadia Garnefski and her colleagues, the statement 'I think of nicer things than what I have experienced' is likely to assess people's use of which cognitive strategy?

Refocus on planning

Positive refocusing

Positive reappraisal

Acceptance

Which of the following statements is most likely to relate to a person's tendency to use the cognitive strategy of putting into perspective?

I often think that what I have experienced is worse than what others have experienced

I wish other people could understand how difficult this is for me

My perspective is that this is a terrible thing to have happened to me.

I think that other people go through worse experiences

Drinking excessive amounts of alcohol or using prescription drugs to deal with stress -

Would be categorised as an unhealthy cognitive emotion regulation strategy

Is likely associated with the strategy of acceptance

None of the other answers is true

Would be categorised as a healthy cognitive emotion regulation strategy

Which of the following behaviours is most closely associated with the strategy of refocus on planning?

Deciding that one should ultimately start making a plan but not to do so for at least a few weeks or months

Engaging in pleasant activities to buoy one's mood

Thinking about how best to cope with the situation

Sharing one's feelings with close confidants

Positive reappraisal may -

Involve thinking about how a situation may ultimately result in some degree of personal growth

Involve focusing equally on the pros and cons of a situation

Be a technique that is used more successfully by younger rather than older adults

Be as beneficial to emotional well-being as using the strategy of catastrophizing

One implication of the article is that -

It is possible to be less distressed by stressful life events by consciously adopting certain mental strategies

It is possible to enjoy constantly good mental health and high levels of emotional well-being by deploying the five helpful cognitive emotion regulation strategies

People are likely born with certain innate mental approaches to life and that these cannot be changed

A stressful life event (eg being made redundant) is likely to have more or less uniform effects on people's mental health and well-being

The gender difference in the use of the cognitive emotion regulation strategies suggests that -

Women need to use the tactic of other-blame more in order to compete with men

Men do not worry enough

None of the other statements is true

Men are less likely to engage in self-blame than women

The emotion regulation strategy of blaming others

May help users of this strategy to put things into perspective by examining how others may have contributed to a mistake or failure

Could actually be a positive strategy as it may prevent people from blaming themselves excessively

May prevent users of this strategy from taking responsibility and learning from their mistakes.

All three of the other statements are true

The finding that there are age differences in the mental costs of emotion regulation -

Does not mean that older workers must necessarily be better at their jobs than younger workers as there may be other factors involved that affect their overall performance

Suggests that workers may become increasingly more valuable to organisations as they get older

Implies that older workers will generally be better at interpersonal tasks such as managing clients or customers

Supports a view that older workers may generally be more effective in the workplace than younger workers

Managing your emotions

In a questionnaire measuring people's use of cognitive emotion regulation strategies, the statement 'I often think about how horrible these circumstances have been' is likely to measure which cognitive strategy?

In the questionnaire developed by Nadia Garnefski and her colleagues, the statement 'I think of nicer things than what I have experienced' is likely to assess people's use of which cognitive strategy?

Which of the following statements is most likely to relate to a person's tendency to use the cognitive strategy of putting into perspective?

Drinking excessive amounts of alcohol or using prescription drugs to deal with stress -

Which of the following behaviours is most closely associated with the strategy of refocus on planning?

Positive reappraisal may -

One implication of the article is that -

The gender difference in the use of the cognitive emotion regulation strategies suggests that -

The emotion regulation strategy of blaming others

The finding that there are age differences in the mental costs of emotion regulation -

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