PSYC 328 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Moderators of the Stress Experience

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 328
• Professor: Barbel Knauper

Document Summary

Coping: thoughts and behaviours used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressful: relationship between coping and a stressful event is a dynamic process. Coping series of transactions between a person (set of resources, values, and commitments) and environment (own resources, demands, and constraints) Certain people are predisposed by their personalities to experience stressful events more powerfully affect their psychological distress, their physical symptoms, and/or their rates of illness. Negative affectivity: a pervasive negative mood marked by anxiety, depression, and hostility. High in negative affectivity (or neuroticism), express distress, discomfort, and dissatisfaction across a wide range of situations. High more prone to have genetic markers linked to alcohol dependence, depressed increased risk for suicide. Increased risk for diabetes, arthritis, kidney or liver disease, stomach or gallbladder problems, and ulcers. Associated with elevated cortisol secretion biopsychosocial pathway linking negative affectivity to adverse health outcomes.