PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Echopraxia, Light Work, Coprolalia
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It motivates you, when you are feeling good you want to do more, when you aren t you will do less. Keeps you healthy (stress is hazardous to health) A global projection of subjective well being (map in lecture) Happiest nations: 1) denmark, switzerland, austria, iceland, bahamas. Least: india (125), russia (167), zimbabwe (177), burundi (178) This comes together for the standard of living : literacy rates, daily caloric intake, income. Socioeconomic status (ses) has consistently shown a very strong relation with health outcomes. Not all low paying jobs are necessarily hazardous jobs. Stress (it might be that people of lower ses have more stress, because they have more problems) Stress leads people to engage in compromising behaviors. Major stressor: subjective ses (subjective ses means you feel poor, objective. Feeling poor can matter just as much as actually being poor. We see that more african americans are higher in things like heart disease, cancer,
