The Transactional Model of Stress and Coping explains stress through changing appraisals of demands and available resources. Coping can address the problem or regulate distress, with outcomes prompting reappraisal. Diagnosis examines the encounter and actual options rather than assigning a fixed coping style to a person.
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Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.