Question :
41. An individual who relatively good at transformational coping is/has:
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41. An individual who is relatively good at transformational coping is/has:
a.an external locus of control
b.overdependent
c.a hardy personality
d.a low tolerance for ambiguity
42. The stress-handling strategy that is considered an alternative to transformational coping and may lead to short-term stress reduction at the cost of long-term healthy life adjustment is:
a.tertiary prevention
b.counterdependence
c.regressive coping
d.stress avoidance and withdrawal
43. Self-reliance is a healthy, secure, _____ pattern of behavior.
a.overdependent
b.counterdependent
c.psychologically distant
d.interdependent
44. As a supervisor of claim adjusters for a property and casualty insurance company, you assign and reassign adjusters to handle routine and emergency situations. Your managerial skills have become severely tested because several adjusters, after short-term emergency assignments, are threatening to quit. What short-term approach to their stressful situation would be most appropriate?
a.Reduce task demands and make sure no adjuster works more than five days a week.
b.Place them on sick leave or provide immediate comp time.
c.Arrange for psychological counseling.
d.Rotate them back to their home location and place them on medical leave.
45. A manager’s decision to reduce task demands in a stress management situation is:
a.symptom directed
b.secondary prevention
c.stressor directed
d.asymptomatic
46. Secondary prevention is intended to:
a.reduce, modify, or eliminate the demand causing stress
b.alter or modify the individual’s or the organization’s response to a demand
c.heal individual or organizational symptoms of distress and strain
d.eliminate key environmental sources of stress or provide direct intervention to reduce the source of the stress
47. The stage in preventive stress management designed to heal individual or organizational symptoms of distress and strain is called:
a.primary prevention
b.secondary prevention
c.tertiary prevention
d.job redesign
48. A secondary prevention method of organizational stress is:
a.job redesign
b.role negotiation
c.goal setting
d.team building
49. Job redesign, goal setting, and career management would be organizational stress prevention strategies applied at which stage of prevention?
a.escalating stage
b.primary stage
c.reduction stage
d.secondary stage
50. The job strain model presented in your text suggests:
a.high job demands lead to a high-strain job
b.low self-determination leads to a high-strain job
c.an active job is associated with high strain
d.that the combination of high job demand and restricted job decision latitude leads to a high-strain job
51. Job redesign as a stress prevention method may involve any one or all of the following except:
a.changing the schedule of work and the sequencing of tasks
b.giving the worker inspection responsibility or expanding the employee’s job decision latitude
c.reducing job tasks
d.setting output goals
52. Evaluative feedback is an aspect of a(n) _____ approach to stress prevention.
a.social support system
b.focal role definition
c.task specification
d.uncertainty reduction
53. Learned optimism is:
a.a secondary individual stress prevention method
b.the planning and prioritizing of tasks
c.is non-negative thinking
d.is a strong Type A personality characteristic
54. An important role in the prevention of injury is:
a.outside exercise that exposes you to sunshine which is linked to serotonin generation
b.low intensity exercise
c.exercising longer than 15 or 20 minutes
d.physical activities such as racquetball, squash, tennis, running
55. An employee assistance program is:
a.an individual prevention approach to stress relief or reduction
b.a first level or primary stress prevention approach
c.an organizational approach to stress reduction
d.normally an aftercare program for employee drug abusers
