PSYC 328 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Coronary Artery Disease, Explanatory Style, Psychological Resilience
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Coping: the thoughts and behaviors used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressful. Some personality traits can make stressful situations worse, others improve them: negative affectivity, stress, and illness: pervasive negative mood marked by anxiety, depression, and hostility. More prone to have genetic markers for depression, alcohol dependence, and suicide risk. A disease-prone" personality trait predisposes these people to asthma, arthritis, ulcers, headaches, and coronary artery disease. Neuroticism is related to poor health: high neuroticism= high risk for diabetes, arthritis, kidney or liver disease etc. Also associated with symptom complaints than to objective measures of disease, and relates to using health services when stressed. Negativity can sometimes create a false impression of poor health when none exists: pessimism: tendency to perceive negative events in terms of internal, stable, global qualities of oneself (pessimistic explanatory style). Dispositional pessimism is a generally expectancy that bad things will happen in the future.
