number and answer each question. A severe stressor I am experiencing is working almost seven days a week and approximately 60 hours each week due to being short-staffed and taking on college classes which limits my sleeping and eating habits and a very inconsistent daily routine. Personally, I become tense and shut down and I try to meditate often if this helps his paper at all.

Think of a time when you were faced with a severe stressor.

1. What were your appraisal and coping responses, according to Folkman and Lazarus’s model? Define primary vs. secondary appraisal, and describe how your understanding of and response to the stressor changed over the course of appraisal.

2. How did you engage in emotion regulation? That is, what did you do to maintain an optimal level of emotion, so that it did not overwhelm you?

3. Thinking developmentally here. What would your response have been if you had operated at – pick one – either a lower or a higher level of emotional development?