HBS110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Procrastination
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Describe how this stress affects your ability to engage in healthy behaviours. Stress is associated with: negative health behaviours, higher fat diets, great fast food consumption, higher levels of smoking. Increased alcohol consumption: and lower levels of physical activity. Unhealth behaviours have been linked to stressed as a way of coping with stress. Stress evokes both psychological (anxiety and depression) and physical (increased heart rate, blood pressure) arousal. Individuals then implement unhealth behaviours to try and reduce that arousal. Lazarus and folkman suggest there are two types of coping responses emotion-focused and problem. Problem: alleviate stressful circumstance, dealing directly with stressor, used when belief that something constructive can be done. Emotion: regulating emotional consequences of circumstance, reducing or managing emotional distress associated with situation or stressor, used when belief that problem is long term or difficult to change. Active coping: taking steps to remove or reduce stressor.
