C3 - Stress evidence

Question 1

3 main characteristics of a hardiness personality: control, commitment and challenge

Answer 1

Kobassa

Question 2

2 groups of stressed businessmen with/without stress related illnesses - healthy group had a hardiness personality

Answer 2

Kobassa (1979)

Question 3

Females = tend and befriend

Answer 3

Taylor et al (2000)

Question 3

Soldiers with increased hardiness were able to cope with stressors in combat and less likely to develop PTSD

Answer 3

Bartone (1999)

Question 4

Increase in number of CV illnesses on the day of the northridge california earthquake

Answer 4

Leor et al (1996)

Question 5

Relationship between stress and CV disease - many factors involved

Answer 5

Dimsdale (2008)

Question 5

30 women given 30 words to memorise - decrease in recall especially for -ve words

Answer 5

Kuhlman (2005)

Question 6

Students showed higher cortisol levels 1hr prior to exam

Answer 6

Lacey (2000)

Question 7

Measured WBC count 1 month before and during exam - WBC sig decrease during exam

Answer 7

Kiecoll-Glaser (1984)

Question 8

Time of peak cortisol varied with age

Answer 8

Lopez (2009)

Question 8

Interviewed 3000 men to determine personality type then tracked their health over 8 years - 80% of those who developed CV disease had a type A personality

Answer 8

Western collaborative group

Question 8

Type A personality associated with a x2 inc in risk of CHD

Answer 8

Haynes (1982)

Question 9

Type A/B personality culturally biased as it was developed in the USA

Answer 9

Helman (1987)

Question 10

responses to exam stress varied hugely from a 58% decrease to a 95% increase

Answer 10

Lewis (2007)

Question 11

young girls exposed to a stressful situation, ones that were given the chance to be comforted by their mothers showed dec in cortisol and an inc in oxytocin

Answer 11

Seltzer (2010)

Question 11

Participants given life events questionaire and exposed to common cold high life events score = higher risk of catching the illness

Answer 11

Cohen (1993)

Question 12

asked a group of women to report life events monthly and when asked to recall them 10 months later they could only recall 1/4 of them

Answer 12

Raphael (1991)

Question 13

used SRRs on chinese participants and found that the death of a spouse was still rated the most significant life change

Answer 13

Zheng (1994)

Question 14

50% of beta blocker prescriptions are ‘off label’

Answer 14

Lin (2006)

Question 14

2000 musicians in a US orchestra 27% used Beta blockers

Answer 14

Lockwood (1998)

Question 15

Number of deaths due to propanolol toxicity raised concerns about giving it to under 18s

Answer 15

Scottish medical council (2017)

Question 16

Propanolol prescriptions rose by 7% from 2012- 2013

Answer 16

Social implications