PSY 459 Chapter Notes -Stress Intensity Factor, Pedometer, Major Depressive Disorder
Document Summary
Coping and self-regulation strategies: temperament and personality variables affect how we respond to stressors. Self-regulation: setting standards and goals and guiding yourself towards these goals while maintaining your inner standards, core elements. Self-monitor: keep a stress log and record your stress intensity levels three times a day, use abdominal (diaphragmatic) breathing, challenge negative thinking, be flexible when using coping strategies. Learn how to be a realistic optimist; expect good things to happen and use reality checks: manage hostility and anger, get treatment for clinical depression, deal with work stress and burnout, use time management, take time for recreation. Enhancing happiness and well-being: the "good life" involves both reducing stress and adding positive feelings, we can influence up to 40% of our overall happiness through relationships, exercise, gratitude. Seligman"s authentic happiness: positive emotion, engagement, and meaning, these three concepts form the well-being theory.
