Anxiety Flashcards
What are the 3 components of stress?
1) frustration
2) conflict
3) pressure
What defines frustration? (2)
1) attainment of goal blocked
2) goal itself missing
What are the 3 types of conflict?
1) approach-avoid (want to approach but blocked)
2) approach-approach
3) avoid-avoid
What defines conflicts?
forced choice between two things
What are the 2 types of pressure?
internally imposed (set by you) externally imposed
What does pressure shape?
behaviour
What are 4 important factors of stress?
1) nature of the stress
2) perception
3) stress tolerance
4) external resources
What are factors that determine the nature of stress?
- severity
- duration
- imminence
- simultaneous stressors
What is the Sandwich Generation?
simultaneous stressors
How does one acquire hardiness?
- genetic
- some extent can be learned
What was a common factor in immigrant suicide cases?
didn’t have social support network (external resources)
therefore increased stress
What are the 3 stages of Hans-Seyle’s General Adaption Syndrome?
1) alarm
2) resistance
3) exhaustion
What is the Eastern Hypothesis?
exclude irrelevant stimuli & increase attention when stressed
What is inhibited in the alarm stage of GAS?
- non essential processes (growth, immune system)
What is elicited in the alarm stage of GAS?
improved perception
analgesia