Your Textbook Describes Several Studies Linking High Situational Avoidance (As

Your textbook describes several studies linking high situational avoidance (as a strategy for avoiding distress) to negative mental and physical health outcomes. By what mechanism are these effects thought to occur?

A) Avoidance-based coping is physiologically stressful, taking a toll on people's health.
B) Only people who have extreme emotional responses to negative events, and are therefore likely to develop health problems, use avoidance-based coping.
C) People who rely primarily on avoidance-based coping fail to take actions that could help improve their health and well-being.
D) People who rely primarily on avoidance-based coping become socially isolated, and isolation has negative health consequences.