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Reverse Chapter 11: Health and Wellbeing Flashcards

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-the use of thought processes or strategies to modify the impact of the stressor
-appraisal-focused coping

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Describe cognitive control. What other coping is this the same as? (2)

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-some studies there are very small variations in happiness across age (happiness dips around 20 and begins increasing again after 50)
-in some studies, level of happiness is constant across different age groups

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What do studies find about age and happiness? There are two types of findings. (2)

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-involves expectations to behave in a certain way
-pressure to perform, and pressure to conform to expectations

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What is pressure? What are the two basic types of pressure? (2)

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-positive repraisal
-downward comparison
-creation of positive events

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What did Folkman and Moskowitz determine as three strategies that can help people use positive thoughts to deal with stress? (3)

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-any noticeable alteration in one’s living circumstances that require readjustment
-yes both can be stressful
-social readjustment rating scale (SRRS)

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What are life changes? Can both positive and negative life changes be stressful? What scale rates this? (3)

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-syndrome involving physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism and a lowered sense of self efficacy that is attributable to work-related stress

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What are the symptoms of burnout?

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-individuals’ overall evaluation of life satisfaction and happiness

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What is subjective well-being?

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-have successfully coped with trauma, adequate social support
-frequently reflect on the traumatizing event and relate it to some positive outcomes

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When will survivors of serious illnesses, accidents, natural disasters and other traumatic events report positive psychological growth? (2)

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-I learned I can count on myself

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What is the thought that goes with the domain of post-traumatic growth: personal strength?

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-threatening events that have a relatively long duration and no time limit

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What is a chronic stressor?

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-this is fight or flight
-brief reduction in immune response but then it kicks back in

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What is the alarm stage? What happens to the immune system during this? (2)

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-the emotional and behavioral outcomes resulting from the beliefs

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What is the consequence in Ellis’s ABCs?

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-lack of fit between perceived demands and perceived ability to cope with demands
-stress is felt when perceived resources<perceived demands

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What is the definition of stress? When is stress felt?

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Primary: initial evaluation of relevance, level of threat and degree of stress the event brings
Secondary: evaluation of our ability to cope

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Since stress depends on how we appraise events, what is the primary and secondary appraisal? (2)

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-I understand religious ideas (or the meaning of life) more

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What is the thought that goes with the domain of post-traumatic growth: spiritual change?

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-personality
-life satisfaction (accomplishments and aspirations met)
-social support
-socioeconomic status

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What are the four factors acting on peoples happiness the most?

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-low complexity tasks, high level arousal is best
-medium complexity tasks, medium level of arousal is best
-high complexity tasks, low level or arousal is best

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What does the inverted -U hypothesis predict about complexity of tasks and the level of arousal that is best? (3)

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-threatening event that has a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint

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What is an acute stressor?

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-both yes and no, depending on whether the individual has made enough money to support the basic needs of life, there is a threshold of income that a person must achieve to be happy and after this it doesn’t effect happiness

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Is there a relation between income and happiness in the USA in the study?

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-cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events on the body’s physiological systems.
-It represents the wear and tear that the body experiences due to repeated cycles of stress and the body’s efforts to adapt to these challenges through the process of allostasis.

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What is allostatic load? What does it represent? (2)

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-challenging perspective on the situation or appraisal of it

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Describe appraisal-focused coping strategies.

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-triggers a negative feedback loop to turn off HPA axis

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What does cortisol do when it reaches the hypothalamus?

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-feeling of membership in a group of people who share interests and social activities

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What is network support?

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-wide range of positive inner feelings

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What do they define happiness as?

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-it produces more anger and aggression

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What does research find happens when you act aggressively?

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-I have new things that I like to do

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What is the thought that goes with the domain of post-traumatic growth: new possibilities?

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-feeling emotions like anger, fear etc

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What would be an emotional response to a stressful event?

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-be capable to perceive and express emotion
-use emotions to facilitate thought
-ability to understand and analyze one’s own emotions
-regulate emotion

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What are the four components of emotional intelligence? (4)

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-movement within psychology that applies research to understand how to experience fulfilling lives

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Define positive psychology

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-positive moods, positive emotions, flow mindfulness

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What are positive subjective experiences?

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-I learned that life is important

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What is the thought that goes with the domain of post-traumatic growth: appreciation of life?

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-allostatic load is multiple stress response cycles whereas general adaptation syndrome is just one

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Differentiate allostatic load and general adaptation syndrome.

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-I know what really matters in life

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What is the thought that goes with the domain of post-traumatic growth: life priority change?

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+ 0.67

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What is the correlation between a nation’s well-being score and its gross national product?

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-emotional
-physiological
-behavioral

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What three levels do stress responses occur at? (3)

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-positive workplaces, positive schools

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What are positive institutions?

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-commitment
-challenge
-control

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According to Kobasa, what three traits describe hardiness? (3)

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-extraversion and neuroticism

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What two personality traits are closely related to well-being?

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-theory to describe the bodies short-term and long-term reactions to stress
-alarm, resistance and exhaustion

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What is the general adaptation system? What are its three stages? (2)

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-coping efforts, lashing out, blaming oneself, seeking help etc

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What would be a behavioural response to a stressful event?

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-social support
-hardiness
-optimism
-sensation seeking
-autonomic reactivity

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What are the moderating variables influencing stress tolerance? (5)

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-when an individual’s goal-directed behavior is blocked (frustration), it leads to an aggressive response (chatgpt)

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What is the frustration aggression hypothesis?

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-hypothalamus activates the sympathetic nervous system which activates the adrenal glands and sends out norepinephrine and epinephrine
-then hypothalamus sends message to pituitary gland
-pituitary gland sends a hormone to the adrenal gland
-adrenal glands secrete cortisol

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Describe the steps involved in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. (4)

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-the opportunity to choose between alternative courses of action

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What is decisional control?

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-autonomic arousal, hormonal fluctuations

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What would be a physiological response to a stressful event?

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-ability to take actions to reduce the impact of stressor
-problem-directed coping

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Describe behavioural control. What other type of coping is this the same as? (2)

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-therapy that focuses on altering clients’ patterns of irrational/negative thinking to reduce maladaptive emotions and behaviour

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What is Ellis’s rational-emotive behaviour therapy model?

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-various physiological and immune systems fail

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What is the exhaustion stage?

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-tendency to experience negative emotions more frequently and intensely
-moody, anxious, unstable, pessimistic

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What is neuroticism? Give examples. (2)

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-ABC’s are a core component of rational-emotive behaviour therapy
-A is activating event
-B is belief system
-C is consequence

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How does Ellis’s ABC’s relate to his rational-emotive behaviour therapy? What are Ellis’s ABCs? (4)

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-positive emotions cause people to expand their view of what is possible in a situation (broaden) and develop new ideas and relationships (build)

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What is the broaden-and-build theory?

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-respond to stress by nurturing offspring and seeking social support from others

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What is the tend-and-befriend response?

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-both women and men are equally happy

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What do empirical studies consistently find in terms of happiness and sex?

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-judgement that life is satisfying
-predominance of positive emotions compared with negative

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What are the two ways happiness is measured?

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-tendency to seek stimulation and enjoy the company of others
-loves variety and excitement, positive outlook on life, the life of the party

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What is extraversion? Give some examples. (2)

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-acute stressors
-chronic stressors
-ambient stress
-daily hassles
-readjustment to life changes
-burnout

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What are the six types of stress?

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-emotional support
-esteem support
-tangible/instrumental support
-informational support
-network support

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What are the types of social support? (5)

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-beliefs about activating event
-irrational appraisal and rational appraisal

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What is the belief system in Ellis’s ABCs? What can they comprise? (2)

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-disposition marked by commitment, challenge and control - associated with strong stress resilience

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What is hardiness?

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-powerful, largely uncontrollable feelings, accompanied by physiological changes

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Define emotions

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-positive stress like getting married
-negative stress

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What is eustress? What is distress? (2)

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-hope, resilience, grit, gratitude

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What are positive individual traits?

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-no it is not affected by fortune or misfortune
-rather by personality

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Is the overall constant level of happiness affected by sudden fortune or misfortune according to studies? What affects this? (2)

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-the body prepares for longer defence from the stressor
-immunity increases as body increases its responses

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What is the resistance stage? What happens to immunity during this? (2)

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-releasing pent-up emotions, distracting oneself, actually dealing with the emotions

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What are emotion-focused strategies?

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-any event/situation that triggers a reaction

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What is the activating event in Ellis’s ABCs?

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-an inflated view of one’s own characteristics as a good, able and desirable person

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What is a positive illusion?

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-behavioural control
-cognitive control
-decisional control
-informational control

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What are the four types of control people feel that they have our a situation? (4)

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-positive subjective experience
-positive individual traits
-positive institutions

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What are the three lines of inquiry in positive psychology?

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-direct assistance
-lending money, giving ride somewhere

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What is tangible/instrumental support? Examples? (2)

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-personality, work, relationship satisfaction

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What are strong predictors of happiness?

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-new possibilities
-relating to others
-personal strength
-appreciation of life
-spiritual change
-life priority change

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What are the six domains of post-traumatic growth? (6)

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-chronic negative conditions embedded in the environment
-poverty, excessive traffic.

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What is ambient stress? What is an example? (2)

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-support that makes someone feel good about themselves
-expressed via positive regard for the person, encouragement or agreement with the individual’s ideas or feelings

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What is esteem support? What is esteem support expressed as? (2)

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-opportunity to get knowledge about stressful event

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What is informational control?

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-appraisal-focused
-problem focused
-emotion focused

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What are the three main categories of constructive coping strategies?

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-transfer of negative emotion from one person to another

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What is displacement?

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-learned helplessness
-because the dogs could have prevented the electric shock by stopping over the barrier but they learned to just take the shocks and not try to escape

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What did Martin Seligman show with the dog experiment? Explain why. (2)

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-social support
-a sense of personal control

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What are two psychosocial modifiers of stress? (2)

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-I feel closer to other people than I did before

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What is the thought that goes with the domain of post-traumatic growth: relating to others?

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-looking to solve the problem either itself or solving the symptoms

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Describe the problem-focused strategies.

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Biological, psychological, and social context

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What three domains are in the biopsychosocial approach to understanding health?

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