PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Cortisol, Neuroticism, Catecholamine
23 Nov 2020
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Stress and psychological well-being rates of psychological disorders. Studies of results of catastrophic events has found average increase of 17% in. Rape trauma syndrome a pattern of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral. Neuroticism a personality trait that involves the tendency to experience high responses that occurs in response to being raped levels of negative affect and to behave in self-defeating ways. People high in neuroticism have heightened tendency to experience negative emotions and to involved in stressful situations through maladaptive behaviours. Stress and illness entire spectrum of physical illness. Stress can combine with other physical and psychological factors to influence the. Stress can trigger illness by causing a breakdown in immune system functioning. Stressors can release sufficient stress hormones to induce structural changes in the hippocampus that last for a month or longer. Vulnerability factors increase people"s susceptibility to stressful events (includes lack of a support network, poor coping skills, tendencies to become anxious, etc. )
