01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Stress Management, Structured Interview, Sympathetic Nervous System
28 May 2016
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Objective events happen to a person, but personality determines the impact of events by influencing a person"s ability to copy. Personality moderates the relation between stress and illness. Coping response influences degree, duration, and the frequency of a stressful event. Problem: researchers are unable to identify stable coping responses that are consistently adaptive or maladaptive. Can influence how a person appraises events. Appraisal suggests that it is not the event itself that causes stress, but how the event is interpreted by a person. People don"t just respond to situations, they also create situations through choices and actions. Personality does not directly influence the relation between stress and illness. Instead, personality affects health indirectly, through health promoting or health degrading behaviors. Associations may exist between personality and illness because of a third variable that is causing them both. Association found between illness and personality because of some predisposition that underlies them both.
