PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Actuary, Caffeine, Progressive Muscle Relaxation
4 Mar 2019
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Sing lin (actuary): later age of retirement earlier death: for every year one works beyond age 55, one loses 2 years of life span on average. ***is correlational not causation: other study: retiring early at 55 or 60 was not associated with better survival than retiring at 65 in a cohort of past employees of the petrochemical industry. Mortality was higher in employees who retired at 55 than in those who continued working. Stressors at all ages, the stressors are just different. Proactive coping: what can you do in advance. Reactive coping: bad things have happened, what can i do about it. Adaptive coping: techniques that are useful in short and long-term to deal with stress and become resilient to life challenges. Maladaptive coping: could be useful in the short-term but generally lowers ability to deal with life challenges (ex. smoking) Types of coping: giving up and blaming oneself (learned helplessness, striking out at others.
