Comprehensive model
This comprehensive model looks at health and illness through the interaction of biological factors, psychological characteristics, and social conditions.
What is biopsychosocial model?
Defined as an environmental event or stimulus that threatens an organism.
What is stressor?
The immediate fight-or-flight response involves increased sympathetic activation and the secretion of this hormone from the adrenal medulla.
What is epinephrine?
This type of coping aims to confront or minimize the stressor itself by changing the situation.
What is problem-focused coping?
Genetics, brain processing, peripheral nervous system responses, and the immune system fall under this specific pillar of the biopsychosocial model.
What are biological factors?
This type of stress is defined as the stress of positive events or view it in a positive way.
What is Eustress?
Hans Selye’s model describing the effects of stressors is known by this three-letter acronym.
What is GAS (General Adaptation Syndrome)?
This type of coping aims to regulate or reduce the negative emotions associated with a stressor.
What is emotion-focused coping?
Cultural influences, family relationships, social support, and socioeconomic status are examples of this pillar of the biopsychosocial model.
What are social conditions?
Large disruptions, especially unpredictable and uncontrollable events like natural disasters or fires, are categorized as this type of stressor.
What are catastrophic stressors?
These are the three sequential phases of the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS).
What are alarm, resistance, and exhaustion?
This personality type, characterized by negative affect, anger, hostility, and rumination, is particularly prone to heart disease.
What is Type A personality?
Thoughts, personality, stress, lifestyle behaviors, and health beliefs belong to this component of the biopsychosocial model.
What are psychological characteristics?
Defined as everyday irritations that cause small disruptions, the cumulative effects of which can add up to a large impact on health.
What are daily hassles?
The field that studies the interaction between mental processes, neural function, and immunity is called this.
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
Along with Type A traits, this specific "Big Five" personality trait is linked to higher vulnerability to heart disease and negative stress outcomes.
What is neuroticism?
According to graph showed in last class, Black Americans have a lower life expectancy than White Americans due to biological susceptibility, stress from systemic racism, and reduced access to this social factor.
What is affordable healthcare?
According to Folkman & Lazarus's appraisal theory, this appraisal evaluates whether an individual has sufficient or insufficient resources to cope with a stressor.
What is secondary appraisal (or analysis of available resources)?
This axis is affected by immediate stressors, activates the alarm stage, and boosts the short-term immune system.
What is the SAM (sympathetic-adreno-medullary) axis?
Hardiness impacts stress responses by helping individuals adapt to life changes through three core components: Control, Challenge, and this.
What is commitment?