PSY340H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Grey Matter, Blood Pressure, Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Pervasive role of psychological factors in health form the basis for the fields of behavioural medicine and health psychology. Emotional upset, deterioration of performance, or physiological changes as a response to environmental conditions. Psychogenic stressors stem from psychological factors while neurogenic stressors stem from a physical stimulus. Most adaptive when there is something that an individual can do to improve the situation. Not adaptive when the situation is uncontrollable: emotion-focused- efforts to reduce the negative emotional reactions to stress (eg. relaxing) Goodness of fit hypothesis: adaptivity of a particular coping response depends on the match between the coping response and what is called for ideally by the problem situation. Longitudinal research offers advantages of reducing biases of retrospective self-reports and changes in stress can be shown to precede changes in health. Assessment of daily experience: brief college hassles scale taps three main themes. Also assesses common general hassles such as organization of time, noise, chores, etc.
