PSYC 2740 Lecture 10: Week 10

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

*e. g high conscientiousness people may have more healthy ways to deal with stress, which negates the risk for illness. Interacts with coping, thus impacting illness susceptibility. Criticism: unable to identity stable coping responses that are adaptive or maladaptive, sometimes a response could be either. Your personality traits determine how one copes with, and interprets events. Your personality also determines the events that you are in themselves. Certain personality traits lead to either health promoting or degrading behaviour. Neuroticism has been found to increase risk for illness. Conscientiousness and extraversion lead to better health. There could be an underlying genetic predisposition that accounts for both personality and illness. *i. e a certain neurotransmitter that leads to both sensation seeking and and illness. Personality impacts: degree to which a person perceives and attends to bodily sensations and degree to which a person interprets & label sensations as illness. The big 5 and management of diabetes in youth.