PSYC 1030H Lecture 8: Stress, coping and health
17 Mar 2017
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Assumes that health and wellness is caused by a complex interaction: biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. He had a very strong psychoanalytic background. Interested in the relationship between personality and health: beginnings of psycho-semantics medicine. Genetic variability, differences in make up, environment . Thursday, march 16, 2017: personality type > interference of organ inferiority (biological factors) > The personal structure existed since early in the individual"s life. Organ vulnerability would have to have existed since early on. Why didn"t the illness always start in childhood: this should be happening sooner but it is not therefore he revised his model. A nonspeci c response of the body to any demand made on it. Arousal to situations or events that we perceive as threatening or challenging. Limitations of selye"s model: stress has too many ambiguous meanings, stress is an abstraction it has no real independent existence, not all responses to stress are uniform.
