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Stress, Anxiety & Health Flashcards

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What 3 features characterise the character of stress?

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  1. subjective sensations
  2. behaviour
  3. health
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What are examples of subjective sensations of stress?

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Headache

Nausea

Fatigue

Muscle tension

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What are examples of behaviours that characterise stress?

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crying

smoking/drinking

problems concentrating

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What are examples of health problems that characterise stress?

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  1. cardiovascular disease
  2. cancer
  3. susceptibility to colds
  4. skin disease
  5. depression
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On the normal distribution curve that describes optimum stress, what are the axes?

What are the 3 regions?

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y - performance

x - level of stress

The three regions are:

  1. calm
  2. eustress (optimum stress)
  3. distress
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What region of the stress is optimal?

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Optimal performance occurs in eustress

This is where individuals are energised, focused and work feels effortless

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What are the signs exhibited by someone in the distress region?

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Fatigue, exhaustion, health problems, break down and burnout

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What does Cary Cooper’s graph suggest about the level of stress and health?

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Stress of boredom is associated with increasing ill-health

Moderate levels of pressure lead to increasing health

Stress of excess pressure leads to increasing ill-health

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How may stress be described as a response?

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These are the responses that arise as a result of stress

  1. fight or flight response
  2. general adaptation syndrome (Selye)
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How does Selye describe stress as a physiological response?

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It is a general adaptation syndrome (biologically programmed)

If it is severe and sustained, this leads to disease

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What is meant by a “disease of adaptation”?

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A normal response to an abnormal situation

This is seen in psychosomatic disorders

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How is Selye’s general adaptation syndrome divided into 3 stages?

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  1. relatively short alarm reaction

(this is divided into shock and countershock)

  1. stage of resistance
  2. stage of exhaustion

(these are both countershock)

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What is shown by Selye’s adaptation syndrome when a second stress is added?

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Humans are able to cope well with one stress due to biological mechanisms

However, they are vulnerable and cannot cope with multiple stresses at the same time

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What is meant by psychoimmunology?

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Increased stress levels leads to depression of immune system function and increased susceptibility to infection

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What are the series of psychological reactions in response to stress?

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  1. cognitive impairment
    e. g. concentration, disorganised thoughts
  2. anger
    e. g. frustration and aggression
  3. depression
    e. g. apathy, learned helplessness
  4. anxiety
    e. g. acute stress disorder
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What is meant by an acute stress disorder?

How long does it last?

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The anxiety symptoms associated with the stress gradually disappear

It tends to last a few days, up to a week

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What does the anxiety related to stress lead to in a small proportion of people?

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

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What is post-traumatic stress disorder?

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A natural emotional reaction to a deeply shocking and disturbing experience

(a normal reaction to an abnormal situation)

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What are the 3 key features to look for when diagnosing PTSD?

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  1. repeated re-living of a traumatic event
  2. persistent efforts at avoidance of memories and emotional blunting
  3. persistent symptoms of hyperarousal
20
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What is a very common feature of PTSD, but not a diagnostic feature?

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Survivor guilt

can lead to risk of suicide

21
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What was seen in Hull et al’s study about survivors of Piper Alpha 10 years later?

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  1. 21% still had PTSD
  2. PTSD was worse if they were injured in the accident or witnessed people die
  3. there was an improvement in PTSD over time
22
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Why does immediate psychological therapy not benefit a trauma survivor?

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Therapy makes them relive their experiences

This is one of the worst things that can be done

People tend to recover from PTSD naturally

23
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How may stress act as a stimulus?

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This focuses on life events which cause stress

Rather than stress causing other problems (responses)

24
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Who developed the social readjustment scale?

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Holmes and Rahe

25
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What was involved in developing the social readjustment scale?

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It involved cataloguing as many life events as possible which caused stress

These lists are given to other people to order as to what they thought caused the most and least stress

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What was the purpose of the social readjustment scale?

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Using a scale of 0 - 100 to rank events in order of stressfulness

Using numerical values allowed health outcomes to be predicted

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What does quantifying stressful events allow for?

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It is used in studies to show a positive relationship between illness in the past year and life events

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What is the drawback of the social readjustment scale?

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It does not show more minor daily events

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What is meant by the balance between hassles and uplifts when looking at daily events that cause stress?

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Uplifts are positive events

Hassles are relatively minor daily experiences that are potentially threatening or harmful

30
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What is important in dealing with stress on a daily basis?

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The balance between hassles and uplifts

31
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What is the problem with looking back on life events?

What can help with this?

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People may have an exaggerated view of a past event due to a bad experience that happened to them

Diaries and apps can be used now to give a more accurate view

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What is shown by the retrospective study by Protheroe et al?

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  1. 300 women with breast lumps - 1/3 had malignancies

2. Malignancies were NOT associated with any life events over the last 5 years

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What is shown by the quasi-prospective study by Cooper and Faragher?

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  1. 2000+ women attended breast screening
  2. during the assessment, they completed 2 years of records about life events and coping
  3. malignancy is associated with a single major event
34
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How may personality style act as a mediator?

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A type A behaviour pattern is associated as a risk factor for heart disease

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What is type A behaviour?

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  1. thinking of or doing 2 things at once
  2. scheduling more activities in less time
  3. hurrying speech of others
  4. becoming irritated when queuing or in traffic
  5. having difficulty sitting and doing nothing
  6. playing nearly every game to win, even when playing with children
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Out of all the features in type A behaviour, which are the most potent as risk factors?

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  1. hostility
  2. time urgency
  3. competitiveness
37
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When visiting heart attack survivors who had a type A behaviour pattern, what is seen?

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Type A survivors are less likely to die of a heart attack in the next few years

38
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What explains why Type A patients are less likely to die from a heart attack?

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  1. they begin to modify their lifestyle after the initial heart attack
  2. type B have no need to change their lifestyle

There is a balance between behavioural and genetic risks

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How can stress act as a pathway to disease?

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  1. Stress leads to CNS/endocrine changes and behaviour changes
  2. behaviour changes can lead to toxin exposure and impaired immunity
  3. CNS/endocrine changes can lead to impaired immunity
  4. impaired immunity and toxin exposure lead to disease
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WHat is meant by a life-course approach to life events?

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There are multiple events that happen in life, which knock us in slightly different directions

These events are cumulative and can knock people into undesirable situations

41
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What is the ACE pyramid?

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  1. adverse childhood experiences
  2. disrupted neural development
  3. social, environmental and cognitive impairment
  4. adoption of health-risk behaviours
  5. disease, disability
  6. early death
42
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What is significant about reslilience?

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It is not just a personality trait

It depends on the support network that an individual has

e.g. friends, family, etc.

43
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What is meant by an appraisal approach to stress?

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Seeing stress as a person-environment transaction

Stress is not in the event, but in how you perceive it

44
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What are the stages in the appraisal process?

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  1. perception of demands of a situation - how stressful is it?
    e. g. how challenging, harmful
  2. look at available coping options
  3. re-appraisal
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What are the 2 types of coping strategies?

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  1. Problem-focused
    e. g. changing the situation, avoiding it in the future
  2. Emotion-focused

These can be behavioural or cognitive (e.g. denial, discussion)

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