Personality and Wellbeing Flashcards

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Subjective well being

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  • Life satisfaction
  • Positive effect
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Psychological well being

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  • Positive relations
  • Personal growth
  • Self acceptance
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Consequences of medical model

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  • Psychologists become victimisers
  • Helps humans thrive
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Garmezy (1974)

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  • children at high risk for psychopathology had surprisingly healthy adoptive parents
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What is resilience

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  • Adapting to changes well
  • Overcome different challenges
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Resilience as a personality trait

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Connor Davidson resilience scale, measures it as a trait

Wagnild & Young 1990, balanced perspective and attributes a meaning to life.

Silk et al (2007) how does social and biological factors influence the progression of resilience

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Resilience as a process

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Gillespie et al (2007) you can learn resilience as a result of hardship, can be learnt at any point in life

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Mechanism of Sensitisation
(resilience as a process)

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Fossion et al 2013
- jewish adults who had experienced trauma had lower level of resilience and they also had higher levels of depression

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Immunisation Mechanism
(resilience as a process)

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  • we are immune and better at coping as a result of accumulated stress and trauma
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The Resilience Enhancement Programme for Students
(REP-S)

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Cognitive resilience (goal setting)
Social resilience (social support)
Mind-Body resilience (mindfulness)
- lower perceived stress after programme

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Trait and Process

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  • Resilience is a dynamic attribute, it is a normal adaptive process however there is potential to have resilient traits
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Personality and mental health

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  • Positive mental health links with extraversion
  • Emotional stability links with neuroticism
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Personality Traits and mental disorders
(Kotov et al, 2010)

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  • Anxiety and depression is linked with high neuroticism and low conscientiousness
  • Substance abuse is linked with low agreeableness
  • “general’ personality traits aren’t often assessed in clinical practise
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Spectrum Model

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  • Diagnosis is based on the extremity of the score
  • Would be better to use for chronic depression rather than episodic as results will fluctuate as a result of depressive episodes
  • neuroticism and psychopathology over lap
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Common cause model

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  • Personality traits and mental disorder both stem from genetic and environmental determinants
    -Neuroticism and psychopathology have similar underlying ‘causes’
  • Neuroticism appears related to mental illness but not causal
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Vulnerability Model

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Diathesis + Stress = disorder
e.g. inherited risk of disorder and trauma can cause psychological disorder
Having high or low levels of a trait can increase risk of mental disorder
- assessed over long period of time and start as young adults when most don’t yet have depressive disorder

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State and Scar Model

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  • When personality traits are higher after a mental health episode, it indicates scarring
  • Changes in personality after recovery
  • Assess personality traits before and after episode - when this has been done findings are inconsistent
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Is neuroticism just psychopathology in disguise

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  • Just because you score highly in neuroticism it doesn’t always mean you will suffer from a mental health episode
  • May be a marker for vulnerability but doesn’t explain why vulnerability is increased