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11 Health Stress Coping Flashcards

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1
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Defined by Rathus as any demand made by an organism
to adapt, cope, or adjust.

A

stress

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helps us become alert and occupied.

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eustress

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experienced if stress is intense or
prolonged; it can become a burden.

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distress

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4
Q

Study of the relationships between psychological factors
and the prevention and treatment of physical health
problems

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health psychology

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5
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who is the founder of stress research

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hans selye

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6
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he Started his investigation on the
body’s response to stressors, observed his patients with diff
erent problems, and concluded that any number of environ
mental events would produce the same stress symptoms.

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hans selye

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7
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Selye’s term for the common effects on the body when
demands are placed on it

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general adaptation syndrome

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8
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STAGE of GAS

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-Alarm Stage
-Resistance Stage
- Exhaustion stage

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9
Q

body’s first reaction to a stressor. The temp
orary state of shock during which resistance to illness and
stress falls below normal limits

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alarm stage

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10
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glands throughout the body manufac-
ture different hormones that protect the individual.

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resistance stage

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the person might collapse in ex-
haustion, and vulnerability to disease increases

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exhaustion stage

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is considered the body’s system that plays the greatest role. Th
e HPA axis regulates various body processes.

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hypothalamic pituitary-adrenal axis

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13
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stress hormone” that directs cells to make sugar, fat, and
protein available so the body can take quick action; it suppresses the
immune system.

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cortisol

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14
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The axis also controls reactions to stressful events. When it detects a
threat in the environment, the brain signals the hypothalamus to
release _______ which stimulates the
pituitary gland to produce another hormone that causes the
adrenal glands to release cortisol.

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corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)

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15
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Factors that causes stress

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  • daily hassles
  • life changes
  • conflicts
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16
Q

Regularly occurring conditions and experiences that can threaten or
harm our well being.

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daily hassles

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17
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what are the daily hassles

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  • Household Hassle
  • Health Hassle
  • Time-pressure
  • Environmental Hassle
  • Inner Concern
  • Financial Responsibility Hassle
  • Work Hassle
  • Security Hassle
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18
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opposite of daily hassles.

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uplifts

19
Q

Getting a scholarship, graduating from college, marrying the right pers
on, finding a good job, and moving to a better neighborhood require
us to adjust.

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life changes

20
Q

Feeling of being pulled in two or more directions by opposing motives

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conflict

21
Q

least stressful type. In this type, each of the t
wo goals is desirable and both are within reach.

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approach-approach conflict

22
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more stressful because we are motivated to
avoid each of the two negative goals, yet avoiding one of them requires appr
oaching the other.

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avoidance-avoidance conflict

23
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experiences when the same goal produces a
pproach and avoidance motives.

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approach-avoidance conflict

24
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most complex form of conflict be-
cause each of several alternative courses of action has pluses and minuses.

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multiple approach-avoidance conflict

25
Q

psychological moderators of stress

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  • self-efficacy
    -psychological hardiness
  • sense of humor
  • predictability and control
  • social support
26
Q

Ability to believe in our capacity
to make things happen.

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self-efficacy

27
Q

what are the stress hardy personality

A
  • commitment
  • control (internal and external)
  • challenge
28
Q

(Suzanne Kobasa and colleagues –late 1970’s)- studied that business
executives who seemed able to resist illness despite stress. In their
study, certain personality traits that protects us from the health
ravages of stress called stress hardy personality. (3c’s of hardiness)
• Commitment
• Control – Internal and External
• Challenge

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psychological hardiness

29
Q

Can moderate the effects
of stress.
Benefits:
• stimulates endorphins,
• Positive cognitive shifts and
• Positive emotions

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sense of humor

30
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what are the benefits of sense of humor

A

• stimulates endorphins,
• Positive cognitive shifts and
• Positive emotions

31
Q

Enable us to moderate the
impact of stress.

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predictability and control

32
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allows us to prepare
Ourselves for the inevitable .

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predictability

33
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allows us to feel that we are
Not at the mercy of the fates.

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control

34
Q

Considered as a buffer against the
effects of stress; can be given to and
received by people through some
aspects.

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social support

35
Q

different types of social support

A
  • emotional concern
  • instrumental aid
  • information
  • appraisal
  • socializing
36
Q

Can be demonstrated through listening
to people’s concerns and expressing
feelings of sympathy, caring,
understanding, and reassurance.

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emotional concern

37
Q

Can be in the form of material support
and services that facilitate adaptation.
May be given, after a disaster a manifested,
through provisions of food, medicines, and
temporary living quarters.

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instrumental aid

38
Q

Can be shared giving guidance and advice
that enhance people’s ability to cope.

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information

39
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Done by giving feedback about how one
is doing. Helps people interpret what
happened to them.

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appraisal

40
Q

Can be in a form of initiating simple
conversation or going shopping with
another person. Even when it is
oriented specifically toward solving
problems, has beneficial effects.

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socializing

41
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stress management strategies

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  • physical management
  • behavioral management
  • cognitive restructuring
42
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• Structure each day to include a minimum of 20 minutes of aero
-bic exercise. Zumba has already been a current trend. It can be
done alone or with family members or with friends.
• Eat a balanced meal
• Avoid caffeine. The substance may aggravate anxiety, insomnia,
nervousness, and trembling.
• Get enough hours of sleep
• Take a warm bath or shower

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physical management

43
Q

Can be done through involvement in diversionary activities or
directs action taking like positive addiction to cross stitching,
gardening, drawing, writing, poems, composing songs, etc.

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behavioral management

44
Q

Everything that happens to us, whether it stresses us or not de
pends on how we think about that experiences. If you have tho
ught of the event as stressful, use the cognitive restructuring a
pproach to lighten the effects of stress.

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cognitive restructuring

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