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Stress2 Flashcards

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• Primary appraisal: 
How significant is this event?
– Positive, neutral, negative 
(harm, loss or challenge)
• Secondary appraisal: 
Do I have the resources to 
cope with it?
• Reappraisal
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appraisal view of stress developed by Lazarus

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Process of managing demands that are appraised as taxing/exceeding the person’s resources
• efforts are
–action-oriented or problem-focused
–intra-psychic or emotion-focused

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Coping with Stress

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– Doing something constructive about events that are appraised as negative (harmful, threatening, challenging)
– Change the source of the stress
• Example: Work-related problems

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problem focused coping

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– Regulating emotions that are experienced because of the stressful event
• Example: Health problems
– Some situations must simply be accepted
– Ruminating: negative recurrent thoughts
• Detrimental to health

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emotion focused coping

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• Social coping
– Seeking support and help from others
• Meaning-focused coping
– Often associated with positive well-being
• Proactive coping
– Anticipate problem and take steps to avoid it
– Ideal but can expend effort that isn’t necessary
• Religious coping

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other strategies of coping

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– Provides a belief system that lessens distress
– Enables people to find meaning in stressful events
– Provides a source of social support
Believe in God: 96%
– Pray: 80%
– Say religion is important in personal life: 71%
– Attend religious services at least once/month: 55%

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Religion helps coping

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– Beneficial long term effects on immune functioning follow emotional disclosure
• Interventions employ written exercises to 
encourage emotional expression
• Interventions improved health among
– AIDS patients
– Breast cancer patients
– Asthma patients
– Rheumatoid arthritis patients
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disclosure

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Active coping
• Planning
• Positive reframing
• Acceptance
• Humor
• Religion
• Using emotional 
support
• Using instrumental support
• Self-distraction
• Denial
• Venting
• Substance use
• Behavioral disengagement
• Self-blame
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brief cope

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• Microscopic view of coping is taken because
– Recent research questions whether general coping styles measured at trait level predict how people behave in specific situations
• Flexible copers cope especially well with stress
– Shift strategies with demands of a situation

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Specific Coping Strategies

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  1. To reduce harmful environmental conditions
    and enhance the prospects of recovery
  2. To tolerate or adjust to negative events or
    realities
  3. To maintain a positive self-image
  4. To maintain emotional equilibrium
  5. To continue satisfying relationships with others
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Coping Efforts Center on 5 Tasks

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coping is a dyname …

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– A set of responses
– Not a one time action
– Transactions between person & environment

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– Many actions/reactions to stressful
circumstances
– Emotional reactions are part of coping

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Coping encompasses

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– Health and energy
– Positive belief
– Problem-solving skills
– Material resources
– Social skills
– Social support
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lazarus and folkman coping resources

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– General propensity to deal with stressful events in a particular way
• Avoidance vs. Confrontation

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Coping Style

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– Do you minimize or repress the stress?
– Do you gather information and take direct action?
– Avoidance is a minimizing style
– Confrontation is a vigilant style

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Avoidance vs. Confrontation

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– General expectations that outcomes will be positive
• Promotes active and persistent coping efforts
• Helps people use resources effectively
• Has clear health benefits
– Study with veterans - Linked to higher levels of pulmonary function in older men
– Better postsurgical quality of life and faster rate of recovery

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Dispositional Optimism

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– Belief that one can determine one’s own behavior, influence one’s environment, and/or bring about desired outcomes
• Perceptions of control in work life and general
tasks of living
– Less likely to adopt health-compromising behaviors
– More likely to cope successfully with stress

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Perceived control

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• High Self Esteem
– Students became less upset in response to exam stress
– More robust findings at low levels of stress
• Conscientiousness 
– Correlated with living to an old age
– May practice good health behaviors
• Hardy personality
– Commitment, control, challenge 
– Hardiness contributes to resilience
• Cheerful people
– Die earlier (less careful)
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Internal Resources:

Additional Coping Resources

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Q

– Introverts
– High in neuroticism (emotional instability)
– Low mastery or self-efficacy
– Lacking social skills

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• Poor Health associated with

20
Q

Personality Traits and Coping Styles are____

Resources

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internal

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Q 
– Time
– Money, standard of living
– Education, a decent job
– Absence of other life stressors 
– Presence of positive life events 
– Support from children, friends, family
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External Resources

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Q

– Being able to experience positive emotions even in the context of intensely stressful events
(posttraumatic growth)

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Method of coping that resilient people draw from

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• Information from others
– That one is loved and cared for
– Esteemed and valued
– Part of a network of communication
– And of mutual obligation
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social support

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• Tangible assistance
– Providing material support, services, money, goods(Food for the bereaved)
• Informational support
– Providing knowledge(Explaining a medical procedure )
• Emotional support
–Providing reassurance, warmth, nurturance
• Invisible Support
– When one receives help from another, but is unaware
of it, that help is most likely to benefit the self
• Perceiving that one has support
– Helps provide the health benefits (physical and mental) of social support

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types of social support

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Q

• Feel guilty about using another’s time &
resources
• May threaten self-esteem because you feel
dependent on others
• Unsupportive others

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Costs of Social Support

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Q

• Acute stress paradigm
• The biologic responses to stress are subdued
when:
– A companion is present
– There is a belief that support is available
– Contemplating typical sources of support
– In the presence of a pet
• Calming effects are greater when they come
from a friend than a stranger

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Effects onPhysiological/Neuroendocrine Response

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• Social support
– Lowers the likelihood of illness
– Speeds recovery from illness
– Reduces the risk of death from serious illness
• High quantity and high quality of relationships
– Associated with lower mortality rates
– High levels of social support associated with more
adherence to medical regimens
• Social influences may adversely affect health
– If the peer group engages in health-compromising
behaviors (smoking, alcohol)

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Effects on Illness and Health Habits

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Q

Social support is associated with better

adjustment to chronic diseases like:

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– Herpes
– Myocardial infarctions
– Multiple sclerosis

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Q

Biopsychosocial pathways

Social support has beneficial effects on ___,__,__

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cardiovascular, endocrine,and immune system functioning

30
Q

• Social support moderates the effects of stress
on health and well-being
-Predominantly seen when social support is measured as perceived emotional support (more specific)

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Stress Buffering Hypothesis

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• Negative events
– More stressful than positive events
• Exception: Among people who hold negative
views of themselves
– Positive life events have a detrimental effect on health
• People with high self-esteem
– Positive life events are linked to better health

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Dimensions of Stressful Events

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Q

More vulnerability to stress occurs in ___-life

domains than in one’s peripheral life domains

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central

33
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whether ppl adapt to stress depends on …

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type of stressor, subjective experience of stress, and which indicator of stress is considered

34
Q 
• Evidence for both 
– Habituation AND
– Chronic Strain
• Immune system compromised by long-term 
stress
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Physiological Adaptation

35
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• Decreases in performance
• Decreases in attention span
• Believed to be produced by residual
– Physiological
– Emotional
– Cognitive draining
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Aftereffects of Stress

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