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When confronted with a problem, individuals have a variety of coping techniques at their disposal. Qualitative differences among these techniques relate to the choice of means-end combinations. Thus, problem oriented, emotion oriented and defensive responses to stressors have been identified (Lazarus & Launier, 1979; Moos & Billings, 1982). All classes of coping attempts may include both cognitive and motor components. The intensity, extent and persistence with which these components are used may amount to a dimension of involvement vs. disengagement. This dimension is quantitative in nature, and can conceptually be equated with effort expenditure as also studied under conditions of information processing and motor performance. The dimension may well be orthogonal to variations in the quality of coping procedures.
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Schönpflug, W. (1986). Effort Regulation and Individual Differences in Effort Expenditure. In: Hockey, G.R.J., Gaillard, A.W.K., Coles, M.G.H. (eds) Energetics and Human Information Processing. NATO ASI Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4448-0_18
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