PSY 426 Lecture 5: PSY 426 Lecture : health pysch_ chapter4
10 Feb 2019
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Emotional, physical, informational, companionship: companionship friends that you can go out with and hang out but wouldn"t tell them about a big life event. Objective measures of social support: social networks how many people do you have contact with, how many phone numbers do you have, caregiving is someone helping you with everyday life tasks. Subjective measures of social support: asking someone how they feel if being supportive. Associations can be complex -> source and quality of social support matter. Sense of personal control: someone thinks that they themselves can control a situation out of their hands. Behavioral stress: behaving a certain way in the face of stress. Cognitive control: thinking a certain way that affects your reactivity to stress. Locus of control: internal vs. external: external: belief: things are beyond their control, religion: god has a plan . Internal: belief: things are always controlled by the person: self-blame: this is my fault .
