Week 2: Social Cure & Social Curse Flashcards
What are the three main components of the biopsychology model of health?
Sociocultural
Individual differences
Biological
Which level of the biopsychology model of health is nationality, age group, and profession part of?
Sociocultural
Which level of the biopsychology model of health is cognitive style, personality, and life stressor part of?
Individual Differences
Which level of the biopsychology model of health is family history, genetic mutations, brain chemistry part of?
Biological
What do group processes do in the biopsychological health model?
They explain the gap between social and individual/biological levels of the model
What is the social cure?
A growing body of work that states social identity plays a key role in health and well-being, as it is a context dependent category that can be defined at different levels and interlinks with different aspects of our lives.
What did Levine and Reicher (19960 find regarding PE students ratings of injuries (facial scar/knee injury) when either gender or PE student identity was salient? And how does it link to self-categorization and wellbeing?
Female salient students perceived a facial scar as more serious then a knee injury, which is an extension of the theory that social identity salience affects perceptions of illness or symptom related appraisals.
What does Lazarus and Folkman’s (1948) model of transactional stress say about appraisals of stress? and how can thie model be made more social?
States we have a primary appraisal of stress that is construal (Is this stressful?), and a secondary appraisal that depends on resources (can I cope?).
Needs more social underpinning because this view is very individualistic and doesn’t involve enough groups
What did Haslam et al., (2004) find regarding self-categorization and appraisals of stress when students were expose to challenging or stressful messages from an in or outgroup participant?
Messages of stress from an ingroup member were the most stressful stimuli, while challenges from an ingroup messenger were not; stress was equal for both conditions of an outgroup messenger.
Proves reactions and potential stress of a situation are related to the surrounding social context.
What did the quasi experiment of bomb/bar work in workers reveal?
Bar workers saw bomb work as more stressful, and vice versa for bomb workers and bar work.
What did Haslam et al., (2012) study regarding cognitive health prove when they found having old people perform worse on dementia screening when salient with older then younger stimulus?
Cognitive health is related to self-categorization and associated social identity, meaning cognitive performance is not fixed but highly variable.
What did Walter et al., (2015) find regarding personal wellbeing and life satisfaction among those that accepted, rejected, and were ambivalent to their homelessness status?
Those who rejected their homelessness status were significantly worse off in both categories then those who were ambivalent or accepting, respectfully.
What did Croker and Major (1991) find regarding women’s depression ratings after receiving marks from a sexist of non-sexist marker? and how does this link to the rejection-identification model?
Women reported significantly higher depression for both negative feedback from a non-sexist assessor, and positive feedback from a sexists assessor; opposite for other findings.
This is because pervasive discrimination does harm health, and self-esteem, but is combatted by identification or solidarity with other members of a disadvantaged group.
Do concealable or non-concealable groups experience lower depression and higher confidence and self-esteem?
Non-cancelable disadvantaged groups, because they can identify more with ingroup members, leading to higher solidarity.
