Week 6 Flashcards
1
Q
What is identity?
A
People’s values, beliefs systems, and/or ways of doing things. It is what people associate with themselves. What makes you, you?
2
Q
The four factors that influence identity
A
At a personal, local, state and national level
3
Q
What is stress?
A
A condition, feeling experienced when a person perceives that the demand placed on them exceeds their personal ability to deal with them.
4
Q
What are adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies
A
Adaptive: meditation, talking to someone, physical activity
Maladaptive: Drinking alcohol, comfort food, smoking.
5
Q
How we cope with stressors depends on what four factors?
A
1- Predictability and control.
2- Coping resources and coping mechanisms
3- Social support
4- Stress, personality, gender, and degree of optimism.
