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Stress Personality Flashcards

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IS A LIFE-LONG PROCESS”

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LEARNING

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a person’s unique pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persist (consistency) over time and across situations.

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Personality (def.)

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•characteristics by which each person can be distinguished from other people

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Personality

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Personality and Stress . Individuals differ dramatically in their response to a *. Some people are born with a temperament that predisposes them to higher or lower levels of **.

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  • problem or a stressor.

* *tolerance to stress

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Your * to a situation plays a role in determining how stressful a situation is to you.

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cognitive reaction

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Methods of Assessing Personality

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  1. Erroneous Method
  2. Pseudo-scientific Method
  3. Scientific Method
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maybe based on physical appearance, facial features or expression, mannerism, style of dressing etc.

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First Impression

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Erroneous Method

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First Impression

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3 Pseudo-scientific Method

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  • Physiognomy
  • *Phrenology
  • **Graphology
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  • a person’s facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin.
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Physiognomy

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  • is the study of the structure of the skull to determine a person’s character and mental capacity.
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Phrenology

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  • the study of handwriting, for example, as used to infer a person’s character.
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Graphology

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SCIENTIFIC METHOD

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-Objective test
-Behavioral method
Interview
Life History method
-Projective Techniques

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  • –traits
  • –characteristics
  • –behaviors
  • –expressions
  • –moods
  • –feelings as perceived by others
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Personality is thought to comprise several:

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The complexity of one’s personality is thought to be shaped by:

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  • –genetic factors
  • –family dynamics
  • –social influences
  • –personal experiences
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Not all stress is caused by external pressures and demands. Your stress can also be *.

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self-generated

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  • Uncertainty or worries
  • Pessimistic attitude
  • Self-criticism
  • Unrealistic expectations or beliefs
  • Perfectionism
  • Low self-esteem
  • Excessive or unexpressed anger
  • Lack of assertiveness
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Internal Causes of Stress

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Studies have shown that people who display certain * are more likely to suffer from stress and so are prone to all the ill effects associated with stress, physical and emotional illnesses etc.

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*characteristics and behaviour

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Stress-prone personalities

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These personalities do not cope with stress well:
•Type A personality
•Codependent personality
•Helpless-hopeless personality

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  • •Time urgency
  • •Polyphasia (multitasking)
  • •Ultra-competitiveness
  • •Rapid speech patterns
  • •Manipulative control
  • •Hyper-aggressiveness and free-floating hostility
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Type A behavior

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Multitasking

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Polyphasia

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  • Ardent approval seekers
  • Perfectionists
  • Super-overachievers
  • Crisis managers
  • Devoted loyalists
  • Self-sacrificing martyrs
  • Manipulators
  • Victims
  • Feelings of inadequacy
  • Reactionaries
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Codependent personality

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  • Poor self-motivation
  • Cognitive distortion where perception of failure repeatedly eclipses prospects of success
  • Emotional dysfunction
  • External locus of control of reinforcing behavior
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Helpless-Hopeless personality

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Stress resistant personality

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These personalities cope with stress well:
1.Hardy Personality

  1. Survivor Personality
  2. Type R Personality (Sensation Seekers)
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Sensation Seekers

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Type R personality

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In hardy personality, Based on the work of Maddi and Kobasa

•Three characteristics noted in those who cope well with stress:

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–Commitment (invests oneself in the solution)
•–Control (takes control of a situation, doesn’t run from it)
•–Challenge (sees opportunity rather than the problems)

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A person who responds rather than reacts to danger/stress

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Survivor Personality Traits

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•Bi-phase traits (left and right brain skills)

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Survival Personality Traits

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Proud but humble
–Selfish but altruistic
–Rebellious but cooperative
–Spiritual but irreverent
-Considered optimists and good at creative problem solving
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Survival Personality Traits

Bi-phase trait

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identified the sensation-seeking personality as those people who seek thrills and sensations but take calculated risks in their endeavors; they appear to be dominated by an adventurous spirit.

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Zuckerman (1971)

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The Bottom-Line Defense

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Self-Esteem:

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–Focus on action
–Living consciously
–Self-acceptance
–Self-responsibility
–Self-assertiveness
–Living purposefully
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Practices of high self-esteem:

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Characteristics of High Self-Esteem
•Connectedness (*)
•Uniqueness (**)
•Empowerment (***)
•Role models or mentors (****)
•Calculated risk taking (*****)
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  • support groups
  • *special qualities
  • **uses inner resources
  • ***has others to look up to
  • **not motivated by fear
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Refers to the process of resolving stressful situations and of finding ways of feeling less stressed.

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‘coping strategy’

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involves engaging in purposeful action to improve the situation

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PROBLEM FOCUSSED COPING:

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involves efforts to reduce the negative emotions of stress

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EMOTION FOCUSSED COPING:

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This refers to the behavioural and psychological efforts used to reduce, master or tolerate stress

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Coping

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thoughts and behaviours used to manage the internal and external demands of stressful situations

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FOLKMAN

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SKINNER’S FAMILIES OF COPING
Problem solving    
2.Support seeking    
3.Distraction        
4.Emotional regulation    
5.Positive cognitive
       restructuring
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Positive Strategies

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SKINNER’S FAMILIES OF COPING

  1. Escape, avoidance
  2. Rumination
  3. Helplessness
  4. Social withdrawal
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Negative Strategies

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Reducing type a behavior
•Find a friend who is more type B than type A - this will encourage you to copy there behaviours.
•Talk about your emotions more, bottle them up is stressful over time
•Take up a new hobby, one which is non competitive
•Decide what your working hors are and stick to them. Appointments outside these times are a no no.
Stop clock watching; take your watch off if this will helps
•Make time for yourself at lest one a week, go to the theatre, take a walk, whatever you like to do
Try not to butt in others conversations, allow others to take the floor.
•Learn to delegate more
•Take a fresh look at your priorities and decide which ones are truly important to you and focus on these.
•Do things one at a time
•Make time to eat and do nothing else whilst doing it.
•Learn to congratulate or praise people for their work.

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