Self-understanding | Common sense | Theoretical understanding |
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How does the participant reflect and understand his or her own expressions? | How do people, in general, think critically about the statement below? | A scientifically tested assumption of an expression as a phenomenon or in connection to nature. |
‘The stress makes me really tired, and then it becomes too much for me; then it is okay with painkillers. It is a nice solution to stress’. | ‘Something is experienced as stressful in the adolescent’s life. Stresses makes the adolescent feeling tired. Painkillers are used to cope with the feeling of stress’. | ‘Successful adaptation to stress includes the ways in which individuals manage their emotions, think constructively, regulate and direct their behaviour, control their autonomic arousal, and act on the social and non-social environments, to alter or decrease sources of stress’ [29]. |