Psychology 2036A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Explanatory Style, Pessimism, Stress Management

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

Document Summary

Stress moderators: modify how stress is experienced and the e ects it has. May have an impact on the stress itself, on the relation between stress and psychological responses, on the relation between stress and illness, or on the degree to which stressful experience intruders into other aspects of life. Coping: the thoughts and behaviours used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressful: internal coping resources improve stressful situations and increase resilience, whereas risk factors make the situation worse. Pessimism: a relatively stable dispositional characteristic to expect negative outcomes in the future, also viewed as an explanatory style that can be learned (internal, stable, global qualities of themselves) Dispositional optimism: a general expectancy that good things will happen in the future. Self-compassion: a quality that may help bu er the negative e ects of stress as well as enhance other health-related outcomes, provides greater emotional resilience than self- esteem, less severe ptsd symptoms.