PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14.3: Viktor Frankl, Explanatory Style, Longitudinal Study
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Definition: the process used to manage demands, stress, and conflict. Positive psychology uses scientific method to study human strengths and potential. Focusing on positive emotions is a powerful tool of coping. Optimism: the tendency to have a favourable, constructive view on situations and to expect positive outcomes. Pessimists: tend to have negative perception of life and expect negative outcomes. Pessimistic explanatory style: the tendency to interpret and explain negative events as internally based (due to himself) and as a constant, stable quality. Optimists have better physical health than pessimistic. Personality and coping five personalities and its effect: Neuroticism: negative affectivity: the tendency to respond to problems with a pattern of anxiety hostility, anger, guilt or nervousness. Listen to others and reframe stress in a positive way. Agreeableness: like to get along with people around them. see help, Not so much related to coping, but related to interaction with others.
