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Emotion-Focused Coping

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Emotion-focused coping manages the emotional response to a stressor rather than the stressor itself.

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A person facing an unchangeable diagnosis works on acceptance and on reducing physiological arousal.

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Emotion-focused coping is not avoidance and not second-best. For uncontrollable stressors it is the better match.