PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Glomb, Avoidance Coping, Externals
3 Apr 2019
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Control plays an important role in stress. Control is important in determining whether stressors have an effect on you. Prolonged stress leads to consequences depending on how chronic it is. Stress is only bad when it reoccurs constantly. Concern people"s beliefs about the factors that control their behaviour. Externals are more likely to feel anxious in the face of potential stressors internals more likely to confront stressor directly. Propensity to view the world, including oneself and other people, in a negative light. People high in na report more stressors in the work environment and feel more subjective stress likely to feel stress in response to heavy workloads. People high in na more susceptible to stress because: tendency to provoke stress. A predisposition to perceive stressors in the workplace. Use of passive, indirect coping styles that avoid the real sources of stress. More negative things that happen to you, the more stressed you"re going to be.
