PSYC 2510 Lecture Notes - Stress Management, Prostate Cancer, University Of California, San Francisco
2 May 2013
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Psychological factors at play in the stress response. Coping strategies: relaxation exercise with carolyn wekerle. Stress is a subjective response to stressors which include: sudden traumatic experiences, continuing pressures that seem uncontrollable, small irritations that wear you down. Ratings of the stressful degree of experienced life events. Hassles: irritations & demands that can occur daily. Survey of recent life experiences kohn & macdonald, 92. More hassles correlated with more health problems. Being let down or disappointed by friends. Too many things to do at once. Conflict incompatible motivations: approach-approach (pizza or spaghetti, approach-avoidance (potential date or rejection, avoidance-avoidance (unemployment or terrible job) Immigration: moving, getting married, bereavement & loss. Widowed, divorced & unhappily married people (top 3 in srrs): susceptible to diseases & above average mortality rate. Nb not everyone who loses a loved one gets sick or has an impaired immune.
