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GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 42

Motivation, Emotion and Stress and Coping · Stress and Coping: Stressors, cognitive factors, general adaptation syndrome, effects of stress, problem-focused and emotion-focused coping · 1 mark · Multiple select

Which of the following option(s) refer(s) to secondary appraisal?

  1. Thoughts about what to do in a stressful situation
  2. Thoughts about whether an event is generally threatening
  3. Evaluation of an event’s relevance, threat and stressfulness
  4. Evaluation of coping resources and options for dealing with a stressful event

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Correct answer: (A) Thoughts about what to do in a stressful situation; (D) Evaluation of coping resources and options for dealing with a stressful event

Explanation

In Lazarus's model, primary appraisal asks whether an event is relevant and threatening (options B and C). Secondary appraisal asks what can be done about it: thinking about what to do and weighing coping resources and options (A and D).