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stress is subjective T or F

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T - going to be different level of stress

ex car crash: one will worry about insurance, car damage

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Appraisal of Stressors: Primary App. (3)

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what you think about 1st: Harm, Threat, Challenge

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Harm:

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assessment of damage already been done by event: how bad is my car

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Threat:

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assessment of possible future damage: insurance rates will increase medical bills

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Challenge:

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potential to overcom an event: I can get a new car

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Secondary appraisal 2

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assessing coping abilities & resources

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Assessing coping abilities

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I can manage my own temper when taking with insurance

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Resources

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do I have extra money

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Person-envio fit

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idea that that stress tied to what your good at decreases stess: good at time managment so when ever there is t.m situations I wont be as stressed

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Fight or flight response challenge

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not applicable to all situations: can’t flee boss and can’t fight boss

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Seyles - General Adaptation Syndrome (3)

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alarm, resistance, exauhastion

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resistance

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period time of coping

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exauhstion:

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depletes physiological resources to cope (body gets sick)

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GAS example

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(a- car crash
r-thinking about how you can move forward
e-body feels like it can’t function anymore

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critiiscims of GAS

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  • assumes exaahuation is the real problem because it depletes but really its resistance because of its effort to cope
  • limited inclusion of psycho9logical factors
    -assumes responses to stress are the same
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Tend and Befriend

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in response to stress you seek affiliation: prepare to be others going through the same thing

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4 - Stress and illness

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  1. direct effect on physiology (inc. heart rate)
  2. tend to have bad health behaviors (eating sweets)
  3. affect ability to cope with stress (don’t make good use of our social resources because we can be unpleasant wihen stressed
  4. when stressed may not seek health care
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sympathetic activation:

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when stressed it starts puomning your adrenal gland causing to ultipy cortisol levels and cause inflammation

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HPA activation

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hypothalamic, pituitary adrenocatical axis

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pituitary adrenocatical axis

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causes secretion of cortisol (stores carbs to use it when we need energy to run fro a bear)

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Effects of long-term activation

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-improper sleep
- not functioning proprly
- some hormones stay activated (epinephrine)
- immune system func stop
-cardiac func
-psych disorder
- increase storage of belly fat

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individual differences of stress reactions tivivty

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some people react diffrent to stress because pf
- gentics
-vhildhood

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physiological recovery

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how fast can you reviver

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Allostasis

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psychological systems within reflucuate to meet demands

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Dimensions of stress (what causes stress)
- negative events -uncontrollable events -ambigious events -overload which stressors
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Negative events
something bad happens to you or someone else (bad grades)
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Uncontrollable events
I know what the problem is I don't have the resources for it ( fire dept doesn't know when the alarm will go off)
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Ambiguous events
I have resources for the problem but I don't know the issue (fluid under car I don't know if its AC or something more major)
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Overload
Too much to do not enough time.
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Which Stessors
The more tied to your life it is the more stressful it is (graduating, finding a job) `
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Perception to stress
some have diff resources and therefore react to stress differently
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adapting to stress (psychological, physiological)
-if the stress if predecitbale than reduces its effects on health (IK I have finals still stressful but Ik its coming - more chronically stressed you are more health problems you have. (children, elderly, poor)
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Why are children more stressed?
can't cognitively process what's happening
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Why are elderly more stressed?
about to die already dealing w/ other health problems
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why are the poor more stressed?
Limited resources
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Adapting to stress: Habituate
we start to habituate to stressors, don't hear it don't notice it
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Anticipating event
Its not just the even that is stressful its the anticipating part (boss needs to talk to you)
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After effects of stress
sitting there thinking about it leads to dep.
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Acute Stress Paradigm
They would bring participants in and stress them out
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In the lab how did they measure stress (3)
Psychological - asked them about it Psyhiological - monitored heart rate, bp Neuronac - brainwave activy
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How did they induce the disease
expose them to the virus and see if they get sick and track stress
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what does daily stress and adjusters have in common?
higher scores means higher risk of illness
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early stressful life experiences
having early stress in in childhood means more health problems
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what is the challenge with measuring chronic stress and health?
hard bcuz you may be measuring sadness
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solutions to the workplace (3)
reward for good work -have meaningful rs (mentoring coaching) -have perks (gym, cafe, daycare)
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Women and multiple roles
working women have higher cortisol
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protective effects of multiple roles
When you have multiples roles its good for you. Bad mom at least goof employee for men they rely solely on job career they tie their rs with cateer
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Men and multiple roles
marriage good for men emotional support, house chores
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what do children worry about
home stuff, peer pressue
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COPING def
beh used to manage internal/external demands of situation
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Dynamis process of coping with stress
Its not a one time response its an ongoing set of responses
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Breadth:COping with stress
can encompass a great many of reactions/actions
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Negatively personality in coping with stress
higher nuerosicim bad health
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Positivity:
optimistic associated with less health problems
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Optimsim
Direct: don't see label event as stressful indirect: enagag in more active persistent behavior
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psychological control
?
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self- esteem
increase competence not just say awesome
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conciertnouses
do things before hand to prevent stress from occurring (sunscreen on face so no cancer )
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intellegence
helps understand what they needed to do to avoid conflict
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Resillance
resources to deal with stress
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Coping style: Avoidant
gets injured instead of feeling sad think what do I need to do feel better but eventually will come back to feel sad
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Coping style: Ruminivate
feel emotion in the moment but continue to think about iut
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Coping style: hypervigillabt
(fight or flight) take info quiclky usually right
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approach v avoidence
avoid sometimes good because hate going to dentist do think about just do it
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Problem focused
define problem, come up with stratgy
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emotion focused
dealing w/emotion can be approach directed
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emotional app
just had a break up -ackonlfiging feelings more healthy
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external rs
family, vacation, parks
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Stress management program
helps identify stressors combat stress now - helps w/self affirmation -avoid negative self talk -spend time thinking about stress what is coming before it
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Assertiveness stress managemt sklls
saying no asking for help[
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forms of social support
emotional suppoert invisible support(don't feel we owe send we didn't know)
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effects of SS on illness
where one is loved and cared for esteems and valued part of network comm. and mutual obligation. -help reduce psychological distress sleep, better lower rate of getting viruses -help have better health beh habits -
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Biopsychosocial pathways
in lab where stressing people out they found that sympathetic active subdued when near support companion lower cortisol levels
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direct effects
SS always beneficial even when not stressed hate cooking even if to stressed still like that my husband cooks
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buffering hypo
ss most important when stressed
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extracting support
better able to get ss than others - lower social anxiety better self disclosure skills (need to know when who)

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