PSY 706 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Positive Illusions, Social System, Conscientiousness
11 Dec 2019
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We experience distressing emotions (eg: death in family: potentially for prolonged period of time. Maladaptive ways of thinking: crises can trigger. Intrusive rumination involuntarily thoughts that pop in inappropriately. Physiological responses: sympathetic activation, physical discomfort. Manifestation of clinical syndromes in those predisposed. Potentially responses to trauma: lowered functioning post-event (post-traumatic stress, resilience, growth (post-traumatic growth) Major shifts in self and world schemas/ goals. 3 approaches to resilience: resilience is difference from ptg/ adversarial growth, ability to get back to pre-event baseline functioning, after event has occurred, can bounce back from negative experiences. Implies resilience is a process: resilience as an outcome, adversity emergent resilience= form of adjustment, conceptually similar to ptf if approach is used, resilience as intrapersonal trait, ability to resist negative change & remain stable. Implies that high tr individuals should exhibit this relative stability before, during, & after trauma. Focus on major crises rather than stress-related growth. Developed instrument (recently revised) for measuring ptgi.
