A client is in third postoperative day following a colostomy. As you change her colostomy appliance, you notice that she watches the procedure, but she does not make any comment. This behavior may indicate that:
1. She is observing how others will react to her altered body image.
2. She is using anger as a coping mechanism.
3. She is in the exhaustion stage of the general adaptation syndrome.
4. She is making a secondary appraisal of the situation.
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