Stress

Question 1

Evaluation of causes of stress

Answer 1

Strength
Research has supported that life events are associated with stress and ill health. Rate studied 2500 American sailors using the Social readjustment rating scale. There’ was a positive score between life events and illness score

Question 2

Individual and situational for causes

Answer 2

Life events only take situational explanations into account
Looking only at this ignores individual and cultural dofferences

Question 3

Determinism vs free will in causes of stress

Question 4

Eval of type A personality

Answer 4

This research is supported. Friedman and Riseman made a study(3154 men)
They did the questionnaire and a twice as many type A developed CHD

Question 5

Issues and debates for type A personality test

Answer 5

Reductionism vs Holism
Reductionist: it’s difficult to describe complex human behaviour into personality traits. Some people may be a mix

Question 6

Eval of the efffects stress have on health

Answer 6

Strength
Understanding the effects stress has on health can raise awarenesss for the damage stress causes. This could lead to more people taking action towards it

Weakness
Researcher have been unable to find a single factor that can link to stress and poor health. Could either be from stress or our response to it like excessive drinking