PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Stress Management, Sympathetic Nervous System, United States Academic Decathlon
10 Dec 2018
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Personality psychology chapter 18 notes stress, coping, adjustment, and health: the realization that psychologists and behavioral factors can have important health consequences have given rise to the field of health psychology. In most of the models we will discuss, one variable- stress- will be important. Stress is the subjective feeling produced by events that uncontrolled or threatening. It is important to realize that stress is a response to the perceived demands in some situations. In this model, personality has its effects on coping responses- that is, on how people respond to the event: the interactional model was developed into a more complex and perhaps a more realistic model- the transactional model. In this model, personality has three potential effects: (1) it can influence coping, as in the interactional model; (2) it can influence how the persona appraises or interprets the events; and (3) it can influence the events themselves.
