B1: evaluations

Question 1

weakness of life events

Answer 1

it assumes all change is stressful so it muddles both negative and positive events.

Question 2

strength of daily hassles

Answer 2

supported by many studies. a researcher found that hassles were stronger predictors of poor health than life events

Question 3

weakness of daily hassles

Answer 3

daily hassles involve retrospective recall- hassles are easily forgotten so people may under or overestimate how many they experience

Question 4

strength of stress in the workplace

Answer 4

researcher found that employees who reported low job control at the start of the study were more likely to have heart disease 5 years later

Question 5

weakness of stress in the workplace

Answer 5

the role of job control depends on culture. research found that lack of job control is considered stressful in some countries and less desirable in others

Question 6

strength of personality

Answer 6

recent research into the link between illness and type A personalities. researcher found that participants who had a stroke were more likely to have type A personalities

Question 7

weakness of personality

Answer 7

some people could be type A or type B depending on the situation so people can’t be put into either or categories

Question 8

weakness of physiological responses to stress

Answer 8

there is more to the acute response than fight or flight. animals faced with a predator become paralysed and humans may become disassociated if scared

Question 9

weakness of role of personality, variation in level and type of hormones released

Answer 9

the concept over emphasises the role of biology and underestimates environmental influences. personality can be affected by parenting to explain why despite sharing 100% of genes, monozygotic twins have different personalities