SOC363H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Control Theory, Internal Control, Embeddedness
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Ask about potential threats without asking if that is stressful for them: some lives are stable in stress and others change more often, constant stress. a. Stressors turning into stress is due to context: stress turning into distress is due to coping, context is social circumstances in which the stressor can occur. History, skills from coping, meaning of stressor, social comparison with other lives: coping only occurs if the stressor is threatening. Psychologists think that everything can be a stressor, but there are large classes of things that have a similar effect: it"s not just random. Stressors are just possible problems whether or not it is a threat is determined by context. He used very extreme situations in his animals and were only in short term: brought into change in people"s lives changes in lives cause readjustment and that is the core issue of stress.
