PSYC 2600 Chapter 18: Chapter 18.odt
Document Summary
Personality helps (or hinders) us to adjust to the challenges and demands of life. Stress exists for everyone but how we perceive, interpret, respond to, and cope with stress will differ, depending in part on our personality. Psychologists & health professionals in the adjustment domain work to understand why some person- alities are more resistant to stress, better able to cope, and better able to adjust: an important goal with a practical application. Models of the personality-illness connection: one important variable present in all the models is stress, the subjective feeling produced by events that are uncontrollable or threatening, it refers to how people respond to a particular situation. The interactional model suggests that objective events happen to people, but personality factors deter- mine the impact of those events by influencing people"s ability to cope. In the transactional model: personality has three potential effects: It can influence coping, as an interactional model.