Chapter 12: Mental Health As A Product Of Internal & External Factors Flashcards

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What do internal factors refer to?

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An individual’s personality, emotions, intelligence, self esteem, or physical health.

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What do external factors refer to?

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Influences that originate from the persons environment such as for example family, school, friends, social, cultural, and religious status.

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What is ‘locus of control’?

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Refers to internal and external factors, and reflects whether a person perceives that they have control over their behaviour or they are controlled by external factors.

Eg. A student who has an internal locus and performs poorly on a sac, will accept that they need to work harder for the next sac.

A student who has an external locus and performs poorly will blame the teacher, or simply the fact that it was a hard sac.

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What is the internal locus of control?

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You make things happen.

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What is your external locus of control?

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Things happen to you.

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What is eustress?

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Stress that comes from good news, such as winning a trip overseas, is called positive stress or eustress, and refers to a positive psychological response to a perceived stressor.

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What is distress?

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Negative stress, refers to a negative psychological response to a perceived stressor. Eg. Finding that someone has dented the driver door of your new car.

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