stress Flashcards
Dattore
200 veterans from the Vietnamese war, 75 of them were cancer patients. there was a significant correlation between repression of emotions and cancer
Ragland
the death rate for type Bs was higher than As because As changed their behaviour
Carmelli
27year follow up found high CHD deaths with men with high hostility rates
Greer and Morris
link between type C and Breast Cancer was only seen in women under 50
Kobasa
Commitment, challenge, control
Maddi
400 managers in Bell telephone
significant decline in performance for 2/3rd of them
Bartone
hardiness is useful for US Army candidate testing
Contrada
the highest hardiness score participants has the lowest resting bp
Hull
control is the most important of the 3Cs
Bosma
10000 civil servants
NO correlation between workload and illness
Gyorkos
lack of control was more stressful for individual cultures vs collectivist
tonic conductance
no stimuli
phasic conductance
stimuli
Dohrenwend
Self report- SRRS, the interpretations varied
stabiles
low skin conductance rate at rest
labiles
high skin conductance rate at rest
Rahe
US Navy- did SRRS 6months before, then reported every illness. significant positive correlation
Lietzen
160,000 had no asthma and they managed to predict if they were going to develop it
Byrne and whyte
tried to predict who would have a heart attack based on LCU, only could when using subjective interpretations
Turner and Wheaton
asked people to rate the desirability of the SRRS, when it was rated negatively, it was more likely to cause stress
Primary appraisal
working out how threatening a hassle is to us
secondary appraisal
considering how equipped we are to cope with a hassle
Kanner
100 peopele did the HSUP scale alongside the hopkins depression and found a positive correlation
Ivancevich
hassles are good predictors of job performance
Selye’s GAS
alarm reaction,
resistance,
exhaustion
Selye
Rats subjected to: extreme cold, excessive muscular exercise and surgical injury and all had the same response
Mason
Monkeys had different responses depending on the stressor
Speisman
made people watch a medical procedure and thier HR was measured. if they interpreted as voluntary, hr was low, if traumatic, hr was high
Yusuf
INTERHEART study, 52 countries and found there was a link between cardiovascular disorders and workplace stress and life events
Wilbert-lamoen
German HA rate 2.66x
Dharbhar
rats were exposed to acute stressors and found lymphocyte production increased
Orth-gomer
Martial stress increases the risk of a heart attack by 3xmore in women with CVD
Song
130,000 people with stress-related disorders had 64% increased risk of CVD after 1 year of diagnosis
Baldwin
BZ were significantly better than placebos
Gaind and Jacoby
some drugs give paradoxical reactions
Meichenbaum and Cameron’s SIT
Conceptualisation,
Skills acquisition and rehearsal,
real-life and follow through
saunders
meta analysis of 37 studies found SIT is effective
Hensel-dittman
SIT was not good for people who had low control
Budzynski- Biofeedback
3 main phases
Awareness,
Learn control,
transfer
Lemaine
doctors who used biofeedback 3x a day for 28 days had lower perceived stress
