PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, Psychological Resilience
3 Mar 2019
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Stress moderators: factors which modify how stress is experiences and the effects it has. Procrastination is bad for your health via direct + indirect routes. Indirect: health behaviours linked to delay of health-protective/promotive behaviors and the practice of unhealthy behaviors. Chronic procrastinators had worse stress levels, more health problems, more delays in seeing doctor for problems and poor wellness behaviors. Pessimism: stable dispositional characteristic to expect negative outcomes. Perfectionism: setting and preoccupation with excessively high standards plus tendency to self-criticize. High self-esteem improved response to stressful events, individuals with affirmed important personal values have lower cortisol response to stress and less physiological symptoms of stress. Conscientiousness: more conscientiousness = increased likelihood of living longer due to either practice of good health habits or avoiding harmful situations. Positive life events are a source of resilience help with coping or prevent stressful events from taking a toll on health: middle-aged men at risk of heart disease taking a vacation helps their health.
