PSYC 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hans Selye
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3 ways to define stress: organism"s physiological response. Holmes & rahe; wolff; meyer: cognitive appraisal/person-environment transaction. Idea that a stress is present, then we appraise that stress, and how we respond kinda thing. How these changes are defined, positive or negative, doesn"t matter about those. It is just about this stimulus is leading to. Point is, not how you appraise it, it is just a life changing occurs, and how you appraise it. So point is, a life change can lead to illness: Life change is stressful, and it will lead to illness. Eg. marriage, moving to new city, changing jobs, death in family . Developed a scale that investigated the relationship between events that can happen to us, stress, and susceptibility to illness. Results: found that 15% did not experience these things. Most common : took a vacation (43%), death of loved one (22%), illness or injury in last year (21%)
