The walls of Martha and Bill's apartment complex are very thin. Often, they cannot fall asleep because the people who live downstairs play their radio too loudly at night. One night, Bill asked them several times to turn down the radio. When they did not, he called the police. Bill's reaction represents ________ coping.

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Bill's reaction of directly asking the neighbors to turn down the radio and then calling the police when they did not comply represents direct coping, as he directly addressed the problem and took action to solve it.

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