B6 - Life Events

Question 1

Predictable life events

Answer 1

Events expected to happen

Question 2

Unpredictable events

Answer 2

Events unexpected to happen

Question 3

Responses to life events on health

Answer 3

Behavioural responses:
loss of sleep, over/under eating, anxiety attacks, excessive smoking/drinking

Biological responses:
Weaker immune system, increase bp, tension headaches

Question 4

Examples of predictable life events and impact

Answer 4

Starting school
P = New friends, coping with change
N = Unsafe, withdraw, loss of support

Beginning employment
P = Choice, income
N = adaptation,pressure,

Leaving home
P = Independence,
N = loss of support, unable to cope in environment

Marriage
P = Making emotional attachments, intimacy k
N = loss independence, sharing possessions

Retirement
P = control, disengagement from work
N = loss of contact, establishing new lifestyle

Question 5

Examples of unpredictable life events and impact

Answer 5

Birth of a sibling
P = new attachments
N = jealousy, loss of attention

Redundancy
P = Adapting to lifestyle
N = depression, loss of income

Serous illness/injury
P = adapting to change
N = adapting to disability, anger

Relationship breakdown/ divorce
P = Coping with new lifestyle
N = Resentment, depression

Bereavement
P = Coping with loss + new lifestyle
N = Grief, adapting