PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Optimism, Explanatory Style, Pessimism
24 Apr 2012
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Stress moderators- modify how stress is experienced and the effects it has: has an effect on stress itself/stress-psychological responses/stress-illness/ Many actions and reactions to stressful circumstances. Personality and coping: characteristics can be a result of both genes/environmental factors. Pervasive negative mood marked by depression/hostility/anxiety: some predisposed to certain personalities to experience stress and affects their psychological distress; affects rates of illnesses, high neuroticism have much distress/discomfort/dissatisfaction. Pessimism: appraise situation in negative, unhopeful prone to poor health outcomes, stable disposition to expect negative outcomes in future, pessimistic explanatory style: Optimism: can reduce risk for illness, dispositional optimism: General expectancy that good things, will happen and not bad. Coping with stressful medical procedures by control enhancing intervention: More successful in avoided harmful situations; reliable in good health behaviours. Coping style: general propensity to deal with stressful events in a particular way. Approach vs. avoidance: avoidant-minimizing events coping style. May cope well with trip to dentist; but not chronic daily stress.
