PSY 235 Lecture Notes - Borderline Personality Disorder, Lewis Terman, Sick Role
Document Summary
Disease prone personalities: health behaviors, activities and actions that have implications for health, people with certain personalities take greater risks with their health, smoking is related to rebelliousness, aggressiveness, low self esteem, and implusivity. Personality disorders: personality disorders include ongoing patterns of behavior that impair the person"s functioning and well-being. Borderline personality disorder : serious problems of impulsive, self-destructive behavior, fragile self identity, and stormy relationships. Sudden cardiac death: bernard lown"s model, electrical instability (diathesis, a persuasive negative emotional state (diathesis, a triggering event (diathesis) The human termites: longitudinal study of 856 males and 672 females that lewis terman started in 1921, followed throughout their lives, from 1921 to present, provides insight into which aspects of personality are related to longevity. The human termites: sociability: many theories emphasize the importance of psychosocial factors and health, the terman study found no link between sociability and longevity.
