[PSYC 3P75] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 27 pages long Study Guide!
7 Feb 2017
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Has generally been accepted that a person"s appraisal must be assessed. Impact of event on a person"s life. Daily hassles and general wear and tear on a person should be accounted for. Hassles: everyday transactions with the environment versus something that fairly trivial. These may exist in the absence of life events. This approach looks at the severity and frequency of these stressors. This could be due to the idea that the harder you work the better the payoff. Hassles have been related to strain outcome or health effects and disease better than life events. It is tough to objectively list hassles without considering psychological distress. Stress can come from the stressor itself or due to the appraisal of the stressor. Much stress research deals with self report measures. People high in neuroticism (neg affect) report more symptoms. People high in optimism report less symptoms. Objective physiological measures are far superior to self reports in predicting health and disease.
