PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Conscientiousness, Asthma, Coronary Artery Disease
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Biopsychosocial model: physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors. Health psychology: concerned w/ how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Stress: any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well-being and that thereby tax one"s coping abilities. Minor nuisances are an important form of stress. A major stressful event can trigger a cascade of minor stressors. An individual"s response to a stressor is a function of a number of factors anisman and merali. Including type of stressor, its controllability, biological factors, and previous experience. Appraisal: stress lies in the eye of the beholder. Feeling stressed depends on what events a person notices and how one chooses to appraise them. Studies have shown that more anxious neurotic people report more stress than others. The stress appraisal measure can be used to assess individual differences in stress.
