A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: More Life, Positive Psychology, Coronary Artery Disease
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An introduction to health psychology; summary chapter 11. Stress, health and illness; theory; morrison & bennett; third edition. A stimulus or event external ti the individual. Psychological transaction between the stimulus event and the cognitive and emotional characteristics of the individual. Focus on stressful events themselves and the environment. The event and its properties are considered amenable to the objective definition and measurement. Naturally occurring life events did not simply have consequences or a person but also effects. More life events gives more health problems. Social readjustment: the intensity and length of time necessary to accommodate to a life event, regardless of the desirability of this event. Relied to retrospective assessment: patients who were already ill were asked. Some events just do not occure so often that you can assess health. Fales to address internal and external factors that may moderate the relation between events and stress/illness outcomes. Two people could go through the same things but rate them differently.
