Perceived self-efficacy to manage intense stressors affects not only how threats are construed but how well people cope with them. As previously noted, people are producers of life circumstances not just construers and reactors to them. Those who have a high sense of coping efficacy adopt strategies and courses of action designed to change hazardous environments into more benign ones. In this mode of affect regulation, efficacy beliefs alleviate stress and anxiety by enabling individuals to mobilize and sustain coping efforts.