PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Antigen, Antibody, Sympathetic Nervous System
4 Apr 2017
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Type a achievement motivation and competitiveness time urgency hostility and aggressiveness associated with cardiovascular disease. Type b uncompetitive relaxed and unhurried stable personal control: having a sense of personal control reduces stress and develops coping mechanisms. Rodin and langer seniors with more self-control have better overall health hardiness: having a sense of commitment, control, and a perception of problems as challenges commitment control alienation (cid:0) powerlessness (cid:0) threats (cid:0) associated with better health challenges. Sociocultural factors poverty undermines sources of social support, leading to a sense of powerlessness related to threatening and uncontrollable life events seen more in ethnic minority and female-headed families acculturative stress native culture vs. new culture. Hans selye stress is the non-specific result of any demand upon the body leading to a mental or somatic effect. Lazarus and folkman stress is the relationship between a person and the environment that is changed by the person as exceeding their resources, endangering their well-being.
