Theories of Stress and Coping

Question 1

stress is a response of :

Answer 1

body, mind, behaviors

Question 2

Stress is a result of: (3)

Answer 2

encountering environmental events (stressors)
interpreting these events
making judgements about control or influencing of events

Question 3

life events/life change events

Answer 3

discrete, observable, and objectively reportable events that require some social and/or psychological adjustment on the part of the individual

Question 4

recent life events

Answer 4

within past 1 year

Question 5

remote life events

Answer 5

childhood events such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect

Question 6

Chronic stressors

Answer 6

events encountered in every day life, more prevalent

Question 7

5 types of chronic stressors

Answer 7

persistent life difficulties, role strains, chronic strains, community-wide strains, daily hassles

Question 8

persistent life difficulties

Answer 8

life events lasting more than 6 months (long term disability)

Question 9

role strains

Answer 9

from performing specific roles (parenting, working, being in a relationship) or multiplicity of roles at the same time

Question 10

chronic strains

Answer 10

response of one social group to another (racism, ethnicity)

Question 11

community wide strains

Answer 11

stressors at an ecological level (high crime neighborhood)

Question 12

daily hassles

Answer 12

everyday problems (traffic)

Question 13

nonevents

Answer 13

desired or anticipated events that do not occur even though their occurence is normative for people for a certain group

Question 14

Walter Cannon

Answer 14

general adaptation response, flight of fight (response based model)

Question 15

3 stages of general adaptation

Answer 15

alarm reaction, stage of resistance, stage of exhaustion

Question 16

eustress

Answer 16

good stress

Question 17

distress

Answer 17

bad stress

Question 18

Holmes and Rahe

Answer 18

social readjustment rating scale; 43 events, calculated a life change unit score; event based model; measured cumulative effects of stress

Question 19

Social Readjustment Rating Scale Score

Answer 19

suggest that change in one’s life requires an effort to adapt and the an effort to region stability

Question 20

coping

Answer 20

dealing with and attempting to overcome problems and difficulties

Question 21

coping in psychology usedas

Answer 21

a thought process, personality characteristic, in social context

Question 22

Sigmund Freud

Answer 22

mechanisms of defense, devices the mind uses in altering one’s perception of situations disturbing the internal milieu or mental balance

Question 23

alfred alder

Answer 23

defense mechanism as a protective against external threats or challenges

Question 24

anna freud

Answer 24

defense mechanisms as being protective for both internal and external threats

Question 25

norma hann

Answer 25

coping is purposive and involves choice, defense mechanisms are rigid and set, coping focuses on present, defense mechanisms focus on past

Question 26

richard lazarus

Answer 26

transactional model- primary appraisal, secondary appraisal, coping reappraisal; its a process people move through

Question 27

Transactional model- 4 stages of appraisal

Answer 27

primary, secondary, coping, reappraisal

Question 28

primary appraisal

Answer 28

judgement based on past, knowledge about oneself, about event, influence on others

Question 29

secondary appraisal

Answer 29

how much control do i have over the threat

Question 30

coping

Answer 30

application of means identified; problem focused and emotion focused

Question 31

reappraisal

Answer 31

determining whether the original stressor has been negated

Question 32

types of coping (2)

Answer 32

problem focused coping, emotion focused coping

Question 33

problem focused coping

Answer 33

based on one’s capability to think and alter the environmental event or situation

Question 34

emotion focused coping

Answer 34

based on focusing inward on altering the way one thinks or feels about a situation or an event

Question 35

Antonovsky

Answer 35

has propped people who possess a higher sense of coherence tend to cope better with life

Question 36

Type A

Answer 36

time urgency, impatience, competitiveness, and hostility

Question 37

Type B

Answer 37

no time urgency, being cooperative, and having patient dispositions