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Question 1

concept of stress generation

Answer 1

According to the stress generation hypothesis, rather than being passive recipients to events in the world around them, individuals are active agents in shaping their environment and everyday experiences. In addition, behavioural tendencies and cognitions characteristic of depression are likely to lead to greater experiences of stressful situations and events
- when taken together with stress exposure models of depression, the implication of the stress generation hypothesis is that life stressors and depression share a reciprocal relation, with life stressors increasing susceptibility to depression, and depression, in turn, being associated with greater likelihood of subsequent stressors.

Question 2

Stress generation risk factors

Answer 2

1. cognitive mechanisms like dysfunctional attitudes, as conceptualized in Beck’s cognitive theory, and negative inferential styles, as defined by the hopelessness theory of depression
2. childhood trauma
3. behavioural and interpersonal factors
4. genetic factors

Question 3

Independent/dependent factors of stress generation

Answer 3

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