Your manager calls you into her office and informs you that “the company has to let you go” (i.e., you have been fired). You do not make a big deal of this event because in two weeks, you are moving out of town. Your response best reflects which component of Lazarus and Folkman’s (1984) transactional model?

a. appraisal
b. problem-focused coping
c. emotion-focused coping
d. cognition-focused coping


Ans: A

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