Friday, May 10, 2013

The basic study - Baker and Barenbaum (2007) 01

  The basic study was held by Baker and Barenbaum (2007).  In this study, their aim was to evaluate that which is the best, an emotion-focused approach to coping with stress or a problem-focused approach.
  Participants were 89 of American psychology students which contained both, females and males. They were volunteered as participants of this experimentation. For a part of psychology degree, these students were required to contribute in a certain number of this sort of experiments. Their gender was mixed and roughly the same. Specifically, females were 44 and males were 45. First, they were split in two groups and basically, all participants recognized a recent stressful situation. Then, one group wrote about their feelings for five minutes which is an emotion-focused approach and the other group wrote about how they might solve the stressful situation for same time as a problem-focused approach. Furthermore, all participants wrote a self-report questionnaire on the basic of how well they coped with stress after exercise during the week. Lastly, all participants were assessed for a number of things kinds of how they communicated their feelings and their mood as using a range of psychology assessments. 

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