B1: Causes Of Stress: Life Events And Daily Hassels Flashcards
What are life events?
Significant and relatively infrequent. Experiences un peoples lives
Why are life events stressfull
You have to adjust and use mental energy to deal with the changes they bring
How to measure life events?
Holmes and Rahe created, the social readjustment rating scale (srrs) to measure life events
What is stress?
A physiological and psychological state of arousal arises when we believe d o not I have the ability to cope with A perceived threat
What are daily hassles?
Everyday irritations and frustrations that can get on top of us and make us stressed
According to Lazarus what do we carry when face hassles
Primary and secondary appraisal
What is primary appraisal?
When we think about how threatening the stressor is to our psychological health
What is primary appraisal?
When we think about how threatening the stressor is to our psychological health
Once primary appraisal is carried out and we conclude it’s a threat we then we carry out…?
Secondary appraisal
What is secondary appraisal?
Kinking about how well equipped we are to cope with the stressor
How are daily hassles measured?
They are measured on the hassle scale developed by kanner et al 1981
Who developed the hassle scale
Kanner et al 1981
Daily hassles links to health
They can affect your health because they build up in the effects of them buildup
