Sources of Stress
A hurricane would be an example of this source of stress.
What is a catastrophe or trauma?
Women typically respond to stress in this way.
What is tend and befriend?
The three active coping styles.
What is proactive coping, problem-focused coping, and emotion-focused coping?
The explanatory style that reduces stress.
What is optimism?
Produces a feel-good, do-good phenomena.
What is happiness?
This source of stress can occur at irregular intervals and be positive or negative.
What are life events?
A field that studies the relationship between psychological factors and the prevention and treatment of health issues.
What is health psychology?
The type of coping that does not address the source of stress.
What is defensive coping?
A moderator of stress proven to dilate blood vessels, release endorphins, and create cognitive shifts.
What is humor?
Our tendency to form judgments relative to our prior experience.
What is the adaptation-level phenomena?
The LGBTQ community and Black Americans experience this source of stress related to health issues and life expectancy.
What is prejudice and discrimination?
The fight or flight response occurs at this stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome.
What is the alarm stage?
The coping strategy that is best when something can be done about the stressor.
What is problem-focused coping?
Known to help people reduce the stress of acculturation.
What is social support?
The perception that we are worse off than other with whom we compare ourselves.
What is relative deprivation?
Getting stuck in traffic is an example of this source of stress.
What is a hassle?
The stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome in which the individual becomes most susceptible to illness.
What is exhaustion?
Prayer is an example of this type of coping.
What is emotion-focused coping?
Rotter developed a scale to measure a factor related to moderating stress.
What is locus of control?
The study of happiness fall into this subfield in psychology.
What is positive psychology?
Deciding whether to go to Bermuda or Europe for vacation is this type of stressor.
What is an approach-approach conflict?
The characteristic of the Type A personality associated with a higher risk of heart disease.
What is anger?
Sally has a test coming up. She is going to go out for a run before she comes back to hit the books to prepare for a test. This best describes which two types of coping.
What is defensive coping and problem-focused coping?
What are stress reducers.
Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction in life
What is subjective well-being?