PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Norman Cousins
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Stress is the nonspecific response of the body. Fight or flight response: the bodily response to stress or initial alarm. Resistance is keeping the body alert over time to cope with the stressor. Signs of stress: physiological: fight or flight response (cannon) Sweating, increased heart rate, breathing, pupil dilation: cognitive , emotional: Coined burnout : the extinction of motivation or incentive, especially when one"s devotion to a cause or relationship fails to produce the desired results. Inflexibility: almost as if they"re not taking responsibility for their job, not being flexible. Behavioural signs in workplace- increased mistakes, absences, lateness, leaving work early, decreased work productivity, argumentativeness, callousness, alcohol/drug use, over eating/under eating, interpersonal withdrawal. Life events (holmes & rahe, 1967) social readjustment rating scale. Arbitrarily set the middle 50 - as marriage. Highest stress- death of a spouse (100) Correlated with illness: daily hassles (lazarus & folkman, 1984) Daily events and hassles, the little things.
