ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prospective Cohort Study, Avoidance Coping, Cardiovascular Disease
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Coping styles: trait-like forms of coping, unrelated to situations, personality influences how flexible people are in their choice of coping strategy. Adaptive coping: e. g. modifying coping strategies after appraisal of success. Likely to influence choice of strategy: cannot evaluate success of a strategy until we know the goal. 1: conscientiousness, correlation between c and longevity, association between c and positive health behaviours, conscientious people have been found to use problem-focussed coping, those high in c would benefit from positive affect, i. e. less stress. Limited evidence: type c is like cancer-prone personality, cooperative and appeasing, compliant and passive, stoic, unassertive and self-sacrificing. Inhibition or repression of negative emotions: type d personality. Distressed" personality, high on na and on social inhibition (si: associations between tds and cardiovascular disease prognosis and outcomes. Locus of control (loc: appraisal of the extent to which an individual believes they can control outcomes.
