PSYCH 3AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Katrina, Behavioral Activation
16 Mar 2016
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Emoion-focused coping: discovering the adapive potenial of emoional approach. Found diference in emoion-focused coping and psychological adjustment: regulaing emoions experienced due to surroundings. Emoion focused coping (efc) brought out distressors and forced subjects to think of themselves negaively (eg i blame myself for becoming too emoional ) Emoional approach=moving toward a stressful encounter, instead of away from (emoional avoidance) Behavioural acivaion moivates us toward rewards, behavioural inhibiion draws us away from negaive events. Emoional processing=understanding emoions, vs emoional expression=freely displaying emoion. Efc used on female cancer paients proved to decrease stress, feel beter, fewer medical appointments. Students matched to emoional approach tendencies cope beter: allows to vent emoions. On the other hand, those who don"t like to express emoion did beter in informaion processing condiion. Strong ideniicaion with racial group increases self esteem and saisfacion. Efc inversely related to stress (lots of efc reduces stress) Emoion processing allows you to learn what you feel and why you feel it.
