Stress
Eustress is positive stress that motivates; distress is negative stress that causes harm.
What is the difference between eustress and distress?
The study of how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions affect health and illness.
What is Health Psychology?
Actions taken to maintain or improve well-being and prevent illness.
What are health behaviors?
Deciding if a stimulus is stressful, irrelevant, or benign.
What is primary appraisal?
Differences in health outcomes among demographic groups.
What are health disparities?
An external factor that is perceived as damaging, threatening, or demanding.
What is a stressor?
How biological, psychological, and social factors interact to influence health.
What is Biopsychosocial Model?
Regular exercise and balanced diet.
What is healthy behaviors?
Managing emotional reactions to stress rather than the stressor itself.
What is emotion-focused coping?
It provides comfort, meaning, and resilience in stressful situations.
What is spirituality?
Minor, everyday irritations that can add up and cause stress.
What are daily hassles?
A physiological reaction to a perceived threat that prepares the body to act.
What is the Fight-or-Flight Response?
Differences in health outcomes among different groups of people
When others provide emotional support to those in distress, it makes it easier for them to cope and work through the issue.
What is buffering hypothesis?
A positive state of health and life satisfaction beyond the absence of disease.
What is well-being?
Hormone that are released during long-term stress and weakens the immune system.
What is cortisol?
Typical in females; involves caring for others and seeking social support under stress.
What is tend-or-befriend
People with a lower _____ status tend to have worse health than those with higher socioeconomic status
What is socioeconomic status?
Evaluating ways to cope and deciding on a response.
What are secondary appraisal?
It reduces stress, improves immune functioning, and promotes emotional resilience.
What is social support?
Alarm (fight-or-flight), Resistance (prolonged alertness), Exhaustion (systems fail).
What is Hans Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
Later generations of immigrants often experience worse health outcomes than first generations.
What is the Immigrant Paradox?
____ refers to death rates within a population. Today, leading causes include heart disease, cancer, lung disease, and accidents — many linked to lifestyle factors like smoking, poor diet, and stress.
What is mortality?
Taking direct steps to solve or eliminate the stressor.
What is problem-focused coping?
Consume alcohol in moderation, staying active, don’t use tobacco