PSYC-3556EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Salutogenesis, Learned Helplessness, Neuroticism
28 Feb 2018
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Social supports: companionship/emotional support, perceived support. Sense of personal control: degree of control modifies our stress experience. Theories related to personal control: attribution theory, self-efficacy, the reality of control, perceived control, actual control, discrepancy. Retrospective control (use situations to learn and not dwell) Self-efficacy (bandura); outcome expectancy, self efficacy expectancy. Sense of control develops through social learning. Usually retrospective, complex, and not fact based. Illusions of control: negative sense of control. Gender and sociocultural differences: self efficacy social experience. Low socioeconomic status, limited access to resources (financially: external locus of control belief, only have control over certain things, ex. Hardiness refers to personality style: control belief we can influence events, commitment sense of purpose or involvement, challenge change as opportunity for growth. Sense of coherence: antonovsky the world is seen as, manageable, meaningful, comprehensible, religion is usually a source of coherence, salutogenesis: supports of well being and health. Sense of mastery: the belief that we can deal with life events.
