PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: World Health Organization, Coronary Artery Disease, James W. Pennebaker

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Steeves

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Stress, coping & health: biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors, there are changing patterns of illness contagious vs. Doesn"t take into account positive circumstances that cause stress: stress is a nonspecific response of the body to any demand placed upon it (hans. Selye: stressor anything that produces stress (a biological response) Classification of stressors by magnitude: ambient stressors everyday stressors, daily hassles, stressful life events, cataclysmic events. Classification of stressors by duration: acute short duration with clear endpoint (e. g. a midterm, chronic long duration with no clear endpoint (e. g. looking after someone w/a disability) Classification of stressors (weiten and mccann: frustration - (e. g. being deprived of a reinforcement one"s used to causes frustration) Pursuit of some goal is thwarted: conflict. Changes in the living circumstances, including positive ones, that require adjustment. Social readjustment scale purports to measure change-related stress. Actually taps many kinds of stressful activities.