Somatic health was studied to see how it was affected by daily hassles, major life events, and uplifts. Daily hassles are the common, everyday tensions in a person’s life. Somatic health is health related to the body. Daily uplifts are any positive thoughts or actions that make a person happy throughout the day. Anita DeLongis, James C. Coyne, Gayle Dakof, Susan Folkman, and Richard S. Lazarus (DeLongis et al., 1982) from the University of California, Berkeley examined whether major life events and daily hassles had an effect on a person’s somatic health status, as well as the effect of positive uplifts on health. They wondered if everyday occurrences like noise, rush hour traffic, and work overload would result in any health outcomes.
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Participants were given a list of undesirable events and asked to mark which ones had occurred to them. This was called the Life Events Questionnaire, and it was done twice during the one year span: once before the study and once during the study. This was administered twice because the ten-month overlap between the Life Events Questionnaire, the Hassles Scale, and the Uplifts Scale was examined to see if there was any relations between them. Results were not provided separately for this overlap, …show more content…
Health psychology is the study of how a person’s behavior and social factors affect his or her health. This is the area of psychology that this study is intended to contribute to because this study deals with what people go through regularly and the health risks that come with it. This area studies how physical health and illness are all affected by psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors. Health psychology focuses on how illnesses and diseases can be prevented based on these factors. Psychologists studied how the stresses from everyday occurrences and major life events affected one’s somatic health. They studied the stresses participants encountered throughout the day, and these stresses decreased the participants’ health statuses. By knowing that daily hassles make a person’s overall health worse, psychologists can then determine how to combat these stresses to help a person live a healthier
Participants were given a list of undesirable events and asked to mark which ones had occurred to them. This was called the Life Events Questionnaire, and it was done twice during the one year span: once before the study and once during the study. This was administered twice because the ten-month overlap between the Life Events Questionnaire, the Hassles Scale, and the Uplifts Scale was examined to see if there was any relations between them. Results were not provided separately for this overlap, …show more content…
Health psychology is the study of how a person’s behavior and social factors affect his or her health. This is the area of psychology that this study is intended to contribute to because this study deals with what people go through regularly and the health risks that come with it. This area studies how physical health and illness are all affected by psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors. Health psychology focuses on how illnesses and diseases can be prevented based on these factors. Psychologists studied how the stresses from everyday occurrences and major life events affected one’s somatic health. They studied the stresses participants encountered throughout the day, and these stresses decreased the participants’ health statuses. By knowing that daily hassles make a person’s overall health worse, psychologists can then determine how to combat these stresses to help a person live a healthier