Chapter 2: Personal Practices And Coping Skills

Question 1

Stress

Answer 1

A nonspecific somatic response to positive and negative stressors alike

Question 2

Stressors

Answer 2

Negative life events that occur in the life

Question 3

Distress

Answer 3

Related to high anxiety. Negative

Question 4

Eustress

Answer 4

Positive. But body used to negative, and response is the same as distress even if it’s a positive reaction

Question 5

Acute

Answer 5

Short stress

Question 6

Chronic

Answer 6

Long term stress. Example is cancer

Question 7

Rapkin and Fischer (1992)

Answer 7

Looked at Number of stressful life events experienced. Counter how stressed

Question 8

Harlow. Goldberg, comstock (1991)

Answer 8

Looked at single stressful life events. Ex: widowed

Question 9

Ladwig, lehmacher (1992)

Answer 9

Looked at personal health crisis

Question 10

Glass, Kasl, berkman (1997)

Answer 10

Looked at multiple stressful life events. More selective compared to Rapkin and Fischer

Question 11

Cohen, kamarck, mermelstein (1983)

Answer 11

Based on perceived stress

Question 12

Stress research THEN

Answer 12

• negative stressors
• physiological indicator
• animal research
• decrease in psychological indicator

Question 13

Stress research NOW

Answer 13

• negative stressor
• increase in physiological and psychological indicators
• human research
• general consensus

Question 14

Folkman (1984)

Answer 14

Appraisal of control and stress

How much control we have in life

Question 15

Frankenhaeuser 1986

Answer 15

Hormonal response to stress

Question 16

Tavazzi, zotti, mazuerro 1987

Answer 16

Relation between stress and heart failure in human

Question 17

Rahe and Holmes 1989

Answer 17

Stress and changes in physical health.

Question 18

Anderson and Chesney 2002

Answer 18

High blood pressure and stress

Question 19

Hawkley, Berntson, Engeland, marucha 2005

Answer 19

Research shortening of the telomeres due to stress

Question 20

Rothbaum, weisz, Synders 1982 : two process model of control

Answer 20

Primary and secondary control

Question 21

Primary control

Answer 21

The proactive attempts of individuals to influence or alter their environments in ways that are aligned with their wishes “changing the world”

Question 22

Secondary control

Answer 22

Changing the way one thinks, in order to adapt to the environment “changing the self”

Question 23

Four types of secondary control

Answer 23

• predictive control
• illusory control
• vicarious control
• interpretive control

Question 24

Predictive control

Answer 24

Gaining a sense of control by having knowledge of upcoming negative events

Question 25

Illusory control

Answer 25

Gaining a sense of control by belief in luck, fate or chance

Question 26

Vicarious control

Answer 26

Affiliation with powerful others

Question 27

Interpretive control

Answer 27

Reinterpreting negative events to see their positives

*most important

Question 28

<1950

Answer 28

Behaviourism

Question 29

> 1950

Answer 29

Social psychology

Question 30

Rotter 1996

Answer 30

Internal vs external locus of control

Question 31

Seligman and maier 1967

Answer 31

Helplessness. Having a completely lack of control

Question 32

Glass and singer 1972

Answer 32

Urban stress

Question 33

Abramson, garner, seligman 1980

Answer 33

Attributions and helplessness

-blaming helplessness

Question 34

Theory of planned behaviour

Answer 34

Formulated in 1980 by Aizen and Fishbein

Question 35

What is theory of planned behaviour

Answer 35

If people sees the suggested behaviour as positive(attitude) and if they think their partner want them to perform the behaviour (subjective norm), there’s a higher intention (motivation) and they are more like to do it

Question 36

Glass

Answer 36

Relation between stress and depression