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Ch 9 Stress And Health Flashcards

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The term used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging.

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Stress

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the study of the effects of psychological factors such as stress, emotions, thoughts, and behavior on the immune system.

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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Events that cause a stress reaction

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Stressors

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The effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors

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Distress

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The effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being

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Eustress

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An unpredictable, large scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat

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Catastrophe

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Assessment that measures the amount of stress in a persons life over a one-year period resulting from major life events

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Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)

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Assessment that measures the amount if stress in a college students life over a one-year period resulting from major life events

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College Undergraduate Stress Scale (CUSS)

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The daily annoyances of everyday life

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Hassles

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The psychological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for a persons behavior that come from an outside source

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Pressure

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The psychological experience produced by the blocking of a desired goal or fulfillment of a perceived need

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Frustration

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Actions meant to harm or destroy

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Aggression

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Taking out ones frustrations on some less threatening or more available target, a form of displacement

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Displaced aggression

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Psychological defense mechanism in which emotional reactions and behavioral responses are shifted to targets that are more available or less threatening than the original target.

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Displacement

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Leaving the presence of a stressor, either literally or by psychological withdrawal into fantasy, drug abuse, or apathy

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Escape or withdrawal

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The psychological distress occurring when a person has to choose between different and incompatible or opposing goals

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Conflict

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Conflict occurring when a person must choose between two desirable goals

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Approach-approach conflict

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Conflict occurring when a person must choose between two undesirable goals

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Avoidance-avoidance conflict

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The three stages of the body’s physiological reaction to stress, including alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

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The system of cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that responds to attacks from diseases, infections, and injuries

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Immune system

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Disease involving failure of the pancreas to secrete enough insulin, necessitating medication, usually diagnosed before the age of 40 and can be associated with obesity

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Type 2 diabetes

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Immune system cell responsible for suppressing viruses ad destroying tumor cells

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Natural killer cell

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Area of psychology focusing on how physical activities, psychological traits, and social relationships affect overall health and rate of illnesses

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Health psychology

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The first step in assessing stress, which involves estimating the severity of a stressor and classifying it as either a threat or a challenge

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Primary appraisal

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The second step in assessing a threat, which involves estimating the resources available to the person for coping with the stressor

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Secondary appraisal

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Person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hard-working, and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger as well as being easily annoyed

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Type A

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Person who is relaxed and laid-back, less driven and less competitive than Type A, and slow to anger

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Type B

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Pleasant but repressed person, who tends to internalize his or her anger as anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult

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Type C

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A person who seems to thrive on stress but lacks the anger ad hostility of the Type A personality

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Hardy personality

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People who expect positive outcomes

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Optimists

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People who expect negative outcomes

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Pessimists

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Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration

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Burnout

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Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture

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Acculturating stress

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The network of family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, comfort, or aid to a person in need

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Social support system

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Hormone that is secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by increasing the level of glucose in the bloodstream

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Glucagon

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A hormone secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by reducing the level of glucose in the bloodstream

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Insulin

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A problem in sexual functioning

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Sexual dysfunction

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Sexual problem caused by physical disorder or psychological stress

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Organic or stress induced dysfunction

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Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors

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Coping strategies

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Coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stressor or reduce it’s impact through direct actions

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Problem-focused coping

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Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor

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Emotion-focused coping

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Mental series of exercises meant to refocus attention and achieve a trancelike state of consciousness

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Meditation

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Form of meditation in which a person focuses the mind on some repetitive or unchanging stimulus so that the mind can be cleared of disturbing thoughts and the body can experience relaxation

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Concentrative meditation

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Person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hard-working, and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger as well as being easily annoyed

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Type A

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Person who is relaxed and laid-back, less driven and less competitive than Type A, and slow to anger

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Type B

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Pleasant but repressed person, who tends to internalize his or her anger as anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult

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Type C

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A person who seems to thrive on stress but lacks the anger ad hostility of the Type A personality

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Hardy personality

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People who expect positive outcomes

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Optimists

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People who expect negative outcomes

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Pessimists

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Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration

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Burnout

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Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture

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Acculturating stress

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The network of family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, comfort, or aid to a person in need

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Social support system

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Hormone that is secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by increasing the level of glucose in the bloodstream

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Glucagon

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A hormone secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by reducing the level of glucose in the bloodstream

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Insulin

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A problem in sexual functioning

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Sexual dysfunction

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Sexual problem caused by physical disorder or psychological stress

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Organic or stress induced dysfunction

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Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors

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Coping strategies

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Coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stressor or reduce it’s impact through direct actions

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Problem-focused coping

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Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor

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Emotion-focused coping

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Person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hard-working, and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger as well as being easily annoyed

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Type A

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Person who is relaxed and laid-back, less driven and less competitive than Type A, and slow to anger

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Type B

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Pleasant but repressed person, who tends to internalize his or her anger as anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult

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Type C

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A person who seems to thrive on stress but lacks the anger ad hostility of the Type A personality

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Hardy personality

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People who expect positive outcomes

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Optimists

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People who expect negative outcomes

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Pessimists

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Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration

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Burnout

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Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture

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Acculturating stress

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The network of family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, comfort, or aid to a person in need

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Social support system

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Hormone that is secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by increasing the level of glucose in the bloodstream

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Glucagon

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A hormone secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by reducing the level of glucose in the bloodstream

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Insulin

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A problem in sexual functioning

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Sexual dysfunction

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Sexual problem caused by physical disorder or psychological stress

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Organic or stress induced dysfunction

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Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors

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Coping strategies

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Coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stressor or reduce it’s impact through direct actions

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Problem-focused coping

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Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor

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Emotion-focused coping

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Person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hard-working, and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger as well as being easily annoyed

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Type A

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Person who is relaxed and laid-back, less driven and less competitive than Type A, and slow to anger

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Type B

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Pleasant but repressed person, who tends to internalize his or her anger as anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult

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Type C

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A person who seems to thrive on stress but lacks the anger ad hostility of the Type A personality

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Hardy personality

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People who expect positive outcomes

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Optimists

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People who expect negative outcomes

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Pessimists

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Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration

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Burnout

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Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture

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Acculturating stress

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The network of family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, comfort, or aid to a person in need

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Social support system

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Hormone that is secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by increasing the level of glucose in the bloodstream

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Glucagon

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A hormone secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by reducing the level of glucose in the bloodstream

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Insulin

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A problem in sexual functioning

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Sexual dysfunction

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Sexual problem caused by physical disorder or psychological stress

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Organic or stress induced dysfunction

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Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors

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Coping strategies

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Coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stressor or reduce it’s impact through direct actions

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Problem-focused coping

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Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor

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Emotion-focused coping

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