PSYCH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mammography, Time Management
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Stressors are internal or external demands that require resources to manage. Stress occurs when individuals perceive that the demands of the experience exceed their resources to manage them. Dynamic cognitive, emotional, and behavioral efforts to manage internal or external demands that are perceived as stressful. Dynamic: changes over time and as the stressor changes. Emotion-focused coping attempts to reduce the negative emotional responses associated with stress e. g. processing, expression, distraction. Problem-focused coping directly targeting the situation that is causing stress and resolving or altering it; changing the stressor itself. I concentrate my efforts on doing something about it e. g. time management, planning, instrumental support seeking. Meta-analysis revealed that problem-focused coping was linked with better health outcomes than emotion-focused coping strategies of distancing and wishful thinking. Possibly because so many emotional focused coping strategies are confounded with other factors. Emotion focused coping can be confounded with distress (e. g. expressing negative emotions) or negative health behaviors (e. g. coping with alcohol/drugs).
