FRHD 1100 Lecture Notes - The Bucket List, Social Safety Net, Individualism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1100
• Professor: Robin Milhausen

Document Summary

Knowing your values, and then living by them, is one of the most powerful ways to gain inner peace and decrease stress. A belief upon which one acts by preference. Guide actions, give direction and meaning to life discovering your values. Cognitive dissonance: stress caused by holding two contradictory feelings simultaneously, results from situations in which our behaviour is inconsistent with our beliefs, values, or self-image. Can be eliminated by: reducing the importance of the conflicting beliefs, acquiring new beliefs that change the balance, removing the conflicting attitude or behaviour. Other environmental influences such as television, the internet, media. Outcomes we work towards or believe are important or desirable. Based on values, beliefs and perceptions: cultural beliefs may increase stress because you do not feel free to express your emotions. If your identity becomes so closely linked with the work you do, you may lose sight of who you are when you are not working.