PSY 383 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Notes

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 383
• Professor: O' Connor

Document Summary

Chapter 7 notes: coping, resilience, and social support. Stress moderators: modify how stress is experienced and the effects it has. Coping: managing the internal and external demands of stressful situations using thoughts and behaviors: characteristics: Relationship with stressful events is a dynamic process. Stressful event, its stage, and anticipated future course (cid:0) Appraisal and interpretation of the stressor (cid:0) coping responses and strategies (cid:0) coping tasks (cid:0) coping outcomes. External resources or impediments: tangible resources, social support, major life events and daily hassles. Internal resources or impediments: usual coping style(s, other personality factors that influence selection of coping responses and strategies. Negative affectivity: marked by anxiety, depression, and hostility, related to: Higher levels of stress indicators: associated with poor health habits, do not respond well to treatments, can create and illusion of poor health. Positivity and illness: promotes better mental and physical health, linked with lower levels of stress indicators, triggers better immune responses, improves coping.