John just found out that he has lung cancer. he does not feel comfortable talking with his family about the changes and grief that come with the prognosis of his cancer. john is lacking what major factor coping mechanism?

John is lacking of social coping and emotial coping.

Explanation:

Coping mechanism are ways people manage to responde to a difficult situation or stresfull one. Difficult situations have an impact that cannot always bring the best solutions, so people responde the way they can.

Jonhn for instance is lacking on emotional coping mechanism.  Emotional coping mechanism, is a way a person deals with the emotions and feelings that is having. Not being able to talk about how he is feeling is because he is not being able to use emotion foucs coping.

Social coping would implicate being able to get confort and share what he is feeling with his family, so he is lacking social coping too.