Situation
Self
Support
Strategies
Overall Theory
100

The transition considered to be "on time or off time" in terms of social clock

What is Timing?

100

Personal characteristics or demographic factors that affect one’s outlook on life

What is Self?

100

Relationships with family, friends, coworkers, professors, or other important connections

What is Social Support

100

Ways in which a situation can be changed or interpreted or that stress can be managed

What is Strategies?

100

Factors that influence a person's ability to cope with a transition

What are the 4S's (Situation, Self, Support, Strategies)

200

Seen as permanent, temporary, or uncertain

What is Duration?

200

Modifying the situation (hope and optimism),

Controlling the meaning (reframing),

Managing stress after transition (selective denial) 

What are 3 ways of coping?
200

Anticipated, unanticpated, and non-events

What are the Types of Transitions?

300

Anticipated or unanticipated circumstances that bring about a change -- answer

What is Situation?

300

Include ego development, outlook, and commitment and values.

What is Psychological Resources?

300

Hope and Optimism

What is Modifying the Situation?

300

Any event, or non-event that results in changed relationships, routines, assumptions, and roles

What is Transition?
400

Affect how an individual views life, such as socioeconomic status, gender, age, stage of life, state of health, and ethnicity.

What are Personal and demographic characteristics?

400

Reframing

What is Controlling the Situation?

400
Moving to college

What is an Anticipated transition?

500

Selective Denial

What is Managing stress after transition?

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