PSYC23H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cortisol, Fetus, These Kids
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John henryism: american folk hero who built a large farm and worked for the railroads, competed with a steam engine, died at an early age, even though he was quite successful. John henryism (jh): strategy for coping with prolonged exposure to stresses such as social discrimination by expending high levels of effort which results in accumulating physiological costs. "when things don"t go the way i want them to, that just makes me work even harder" "i"ve always felt that i could make of my life pretty much what i wanted to make of it. : lesson of how there can be physiological consequences to coping with prolonged exposure to stress. John henryism moderates ses- stress and ses-health: low jh results in better physiological health. Low hypertension: high jh results in worse physiological health, high hypertension, developmental of basal cortisol levels in two socioeconomic groups, n = 307, lupien, king, meaney.
