Coping efforts do not always us adapt to a challenging or stressful situation. which of the following is an example of maladaptive coping? a)james feels overwhelmed by academic demands during his first semester of college. he talks to a college counselor and arranges to drop one course and get tutoring for asecond. b)emma thinks constantly about her ex-boyfriend, arranges to ''accidentally'' run into him, and daydreams that he will realize that she is his true soulmate. she turns downdates from other men and rejects opportunities to meet new people. c)trevor's entire department is laid off without warning. he immediately puts his resume together and calls friends at other companies inquiring about potential openings. d)liz has a very high-stress job in an inner-city hospital emergency room, so she works hard at preserving her important relationships, making time for family and friends.

B)Emma thinks constantly about her ex-boyfriend, arranges to ''accidentally'' run into him, and daydreams that he will realize that she is his true soulmate. She turns downdates from other men and rejects opportunities to meet new people.

Explanation:Coping strategies are different they can be adaptive which refers to positive coping mechanism and they can be maladaptive which refers to negative ways of coping with a situation.adaptive ways reduces the stress and these includes exercises, meditation and writing down your feelings.

Maladaptive on the other side is a coping strategy which decreases our functioning and temporally makes us feel better for a moment but in a long run a person becomes even more stressed. Some people drink alcohol and feel better for a while but when they are sober it all comes back as it was.

This is the case with Emma instead of forgetting about her boyfriend and finding better ways to copy with it, she keeps holding on to the idea of them getting back together somehow. This is likely to make her even more stressed as this may prove to be wrong.

B) Emma thinks constantly about her ex-boyfriend, arranges to ''accidentally'' run into him, and daydreams that he will realize that she is his true soulmate. She turns downdates from other men and rejects opportunities to meet new people.

Explanation:

This is an example of maladapative coping because what she decides to do won't help her accept she no longer has a boyfriend. By rejecting oportunities to met knew people and daydreaming, she is not living by the facts that are really going on. This is a maladaptative coping, because it is not adaptive at all. It generates a fantasy world where she is not adapting to reality, it only gets her to live under false illusions.

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