PSY 352 Chapter 18: Outline 19 - Stress Coping Adjustment & Health

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Lecture outline #19: stress, coping, adjustment, & health. Health psychology: focuses on psychological factors related to wellness/illness. Medical advantages increased role of behavior in health. Internal, subjective experience (product of person, not environment) Produce opposing tendencies (e. g. wanting to study but also wanting to put it off). Can be a good thing (in limited amounts) Personality and health relationship: the interactional model. Problems with interactional model: we haven"t identifying coping responses that are consistently maladaptive. Stressors appraisal of stressors as threatening (or not) coping responses. Major life events: require substantial changes to life. Holmes and rahe(1967): ps rate severity of stressor in points (0-100: add points from past year: higher scores= higher risk of illness. Cohen et al. (1997): ps given nose drops with cold virus: higher scores=more likely to develop cold. Daily hassles:minor sources of stress in daily life. More daily hassles= higher rate of illnesses types of stress: acute stress: episodic acute stress: traumatic stress: chronic stress:

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