PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Type Four Platform, Extraversion And Introversion, Cognitive Restructuring
5 Apr 2016
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The role of personality (tuesday) and social support (thursday) as moderators. The process by which people try to manage the perceived discrepancy between the demands and resources they appraise in a stressful situation. Attention is directed at minimizing the distress triggered by the stressor. Wide range of behaviours: self-soothing, expression, focus on negative. Attention directed at the stressor itself, steps to remove, evade, or diminish its impact. Positive emotions can boost creativity, such as create solutions to everyday problems. Help diminish the severity of the stressor. Pattern or relationship between two variables changes due to a third variable. Relationship between stress and illness changes due to personality trait. Relationship between stress and coping changes due to personality trait. Most people are more in the middle and not at a polar extreme. Ocean or canoe: openness vs. closed mindedness. New experiences, intellectual curiosity, artistic, imaginative vs. dislike of change, rigid, dogmatic, non-artistic: conscientiousness vs. unreliability.
