PS285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pessimism, Posttraumatic Growth, Cognitive Therapy
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Personality traits personality: trait: a relatively stable characteristics or quality that may represent a portion of one"s, normally distributed within population, link to health is based on the expectation that personality will influence: Type a, hostility and health: personality type. Outgoing, enthusiastic, active; you seek novelty & excitement. Trusting, empathetic, compliant; you are slow to anger. Creative, imaginative, eccentric and open to new experiences. Aloof, quiet, independent; you are cautious and enjoy time alone. Uncooperative and hostile, find it hard to empathize with others. Hostility and heart disease: men with highest hostility scores as young medical students had higher rates of heart disease 25 years later, hostility is more hazardous than a heavy workload. Type d personality inhibition: high stress, rumination. Emotional inhibition: emotional inhibition: tendency to deny feelings of anger, anxiety or fear, people who display this trait are at greater risk of becoming ill than people who can acknowledge feelings.
