Kathy reduced the stress of breaking up with her boyfriend in two ways. She avoided contact with her ex-boyfriend and she planned recreational activities with her best girlfriend. Kathy's behavior best illustrates:

Answer:Emotion-Focused Coping.

Explanation:

Emotion-Focused Coping is an attempt of reducing our emotional response to stress, this means instead of trying to eliminate the stressors we just deal with how we react to stressors and try to make sure we change our responses to a positive one.

This can be a long term situation becaus win the future should we face a stressful situation we would copy much better because this means one doesn't wait for the situation to improve but they choose to not let it stress them.

It eliminates chronic stress.