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healthy psychology |
application of psychology to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of illness |
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mind-body relationship |
psychology influence health (dependent on one another) |
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Stress |
unpleasant state in which perception of the demands of an event are taxing; caused by perception |
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stressors |
anything that causes stress ex. major life events: neg.~loved one dies pos.~having a baby/getting married |
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microstressors |
small stressors experienced throughout day; cumulative~have greater negative effect than major life events (stressors) ex. exams, projects, traffic |
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general adaptive syndrome |
explain why we are stressed; physical stress has 3 phases: alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
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alarm |
initial reaction to stressor, respond with fight/flight response: -physiological -cardiovascular input: HR, High BP -respiratory output: pupil dilation/slow digestion helps us get rid of stressor |
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resistance |
tries to counteract physical effectiveness of stress by releasing hormones ex. friend jumps out and scares you alarm phase: someone is in my house resistance phase: just my friend |
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exhaustion |
not adaptable, no longer deal with stressor in an adaptive way, stressor response: we become sick ex. college students~midterm/finals week |
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perception of stress |
hostility depression emotional inhibition positive emotions |
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hostility |
-tend to perceive a lot of stress -can increase cardiovascular output and risk of getting CVD |
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depression |
-release a lot of cortisol (stress hormone) -behavioral -explanatory style: bad things happen are uncontrollable -genetic |
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emotional inhibition |
-bottle up emotions, does not work, unhealthy -ironic processing -try confession, journaling |
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ironic processing |
more you try not to acknowledge emotions, the more you think about it |
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positive emotions |
less stress, healthier outcome, less likely to suffer from illness/disease, more likeable |
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cope stress |
locus of control self efficacy optimism problem-focused emotion-focused social support |
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locus of control |
characteristic of responding to situation -internal: control our outcomes (achievement) -external: "fate" nothing i can do just the way it is |
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self-efficacy |
-situation/behavior specific -high degrees: lots of control -low degrees: cannot accomplish goal -based on success/failure/never done in the past |
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optimism |
-more positive/looking on the bright side of life, better at coping with stress -blind optimist: naive, nothing will happen ex. I get a disease, can maintain by exercise |
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problem focused coping |
-thinking about situations that would help us cope with stress -focusing on the actual problem and what we can do to cope with it ->ex. finals: study for them and take them better than emotion-focused |
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emotion focused coping |
-focus on the emotions tied to some stressful event, non-solvable ex. rocky romantic relationship -sadness, disappointment |
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combination of problem/emotion focused |
better for fixing physical and psychological health ex. go out with friends, complain to them about how stressed you are |
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social support |
Best way to cope with stress! *can receive from anyone: we are social dependable *social support received from romantic partner especially powerful *online groups: difficulty getting social support publicly (ex. HIV) *pets:just as good as a friend *except someone we don't like |
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culture and social support (individualist) |
explicit social support: directly ask for support (US) |
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culture and social support (collectivists) |
Collectivist: maintain group peace, not socially acceptable to ask (causes stress), implicit social support: receive from comfort of loved ones
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adverse effect of relationships |
people we dislike negatively affect our health ex. Sonya |
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benefit of others |
equal benefit giving help as receiving help |
