Connecting the Dots: The IPC - Coping - Game Design Chart

Upon reflection, it would be more accurate to describe this content as a table rather than a chart.

IPC	Coping	Game Design
context specific and developmentally driven	basic psychological needs are threatened (relatedness, competence, and autonomy)	Story/Environment: shapes the short and long term consequences Story/Environment: affects the adaptiveness of different coping strategies.
person specific and environmental factors (e.g.,chronicity, predictability, intensity,social context)	developmental differences in salient motivational needs and developmental tasks	Story/Environment: affects the adaptiveness of different coping strategies. Story/Chain reaction: threatening one basic psychological need may have consequences that undermine developmental competencies
Neglect threatens the need for relatedness, chaos threatens the need for competence, and coercion threatens the need for autonomy.	coping is a complex process that involves cognitive appraisals,subjective emotions, and regulatory behaviors. coping involves selecting strategies that align with one's motivation to fulfill basic psychological needs	Mechanic/Need: the need to have close relationships with other people Mechanic/Need: the need to be adaptive in interactions with the environment Mechanic/Need: the need to freely determine one's course of action Mechanic/Need: accomplishing developmental tasks that enable successful enactment of social roles
	primary appraisal (is there a threat?) secondary appraisal (what cognitive and behavioral coping strategies can I use?) final appraisal (will it work?)	Story: argue that emotion regulation to avoid overwhelming negative affect is a basic psychological need often threatened by IPC (Chain reaction: fight == anger/anxiety == emotional dysregulation == negative outcomes)
	Coping strategies are described in terms of their functions to manage negative emotions(i.e.,emotion-focused coping) or to solve the problem at hand (i.e.,problem-focused coping ) not distinct and orthogonal options use multiple coping strategies across time	Mechanic: appraisals and emotions influence one another bidirectionally (appraisals and emotions motivate coping behaviors that are most likely to reduce threats to basic psychological needs)
	Adaptive coping involves regulating behavior, emotion, and future orientation to reduce threats to basic psychological needs in the face of a stressful situation. adaptiveness of coping is complex; reducing a threat to a basic need in the short term may not have the long-term satisfaction of needs, achievement of developmental competencies, or mental health.	Mechanics: and conscious attempts to either change the situation or one's emotional reaction toit (i.e.,primary control coping), adapt to the situation(i.e.,secondary control coping), or avoid the situation(i.e.,disengagement coping)