Amanda feels anxious because she believes she is socially dull and unable to form friendships with her new classmates. Which concept best demonstrates the harmful impact Amanda is experiencing?

Explanation

Amanda's belief that she is socially uninteresting and her resulting stress exemplify a pessimistic explanatory style, where negative events are attributed to stable, internal, and global causes, leading to feelings of helplessness. This differs from problem-focused coping, which involves actively tackling the issue, hypochondriasis which relates to health anxiety, and emotion-focused coping which centers on regulating emotions rather than changing the situation.