A small plane has crashed in your neighborhood and you take a fire extinguisher and blankets to the scene. You then stand back and pray when you realize there is nothing you can do to help. In this situation, praying is an example of coping.

Emotion-focused copying

Explanation:

A small plane has crashed in your neighborhood and you take a fire extinguisher and blankets to the scene. You then stand back and pray when you realize there is nothing you can do to help. In this situation, praying is an example of emotion-focused coping.

Emotion-focused coping techniques aid you in becoming less emotionally reactive to the stressors you face, or altering the way you experience these situations so they impact you differently.

It also involves trying to reduce the negative emotional responses associated with stress such as embarrassment, fear, anxiety, depression, excitement and frustration. This may be the only realistic option when the source of stress is outside the person’s control, like in the case of this plane crash.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.