Personality and Wellbeing Flashcards
Subjective well being
- Life satisfaction
- Positive effect
Psychological well being
- Positive relations
- Personal growth
- Self acceptance
Consequences of medical model
- Psychologists become victimisers
- Helps humans thrive
Garmezy (1974)
- children at high risk for psychopathology had surprisingly healthy adoptive parents
What is resilience
- Adapting to changes well
- Overcome different challenges
Resilience as a personality trait
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
Resilience as a process
Gillespie et al (2007) you can learn resilience as a result of hardship, can be learnt at any point in life
Mechanism of Sensitisation
(resilience as a process)
Fossion et al 2013
- jewish adults who had experienced trauma had lower level of resilience and they also had higher levels of depression
Immunisation Mechanism
(resilience as a process)
- we are immune and better at coping as a result of accumulated stress and trauma
The Resilience Enhancement Programme for Students
(REP-S)
Cognitive resilience (goal setting)
Social resilience (social support)
Mind-Body resilience (mindfulness)
- lower perceived stress after programme
Trait and Process
- Resilience is a dynamic attribute, it is a normal adaptive process however there is potential to have resilient traits
Personality and mental health
- Positive mental health links with extraversion
- Emotional stability links with neuroticism
Personality Traits and mental disorders
(Kotov et al, 2010)
- 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
Spectrum Model
- 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
Common cause model
- 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