PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Coronary Artery Disease, Impulsivity, Negative Affectivity
8 Dec 2016
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Sensation seeking and the prevention of risky health behaviours (applied. Perspective): sexual sensation seeking scale measures sexual sensation (seek out ultimate levels of sexual experience and engage in novel sexual experiences) Strong link between sensation seeking and high-risk sexual behaviour. Slightly less association between high-risk sexual behaviour and bother impulsivity and low agreeableness. Coping is the way people deal with a problem. Problem-focused, emotion-focused, and avoidance-focused coping: two coping responses: Problem-focused coping involves taking actions to directly solve the problem (confronts the problem head on by making a big situation into a series of smaller ones) Emotion-focused coping tendency to reflect on the emotional experiences associated with stress. The goodness of fit hypothesis: goodness of fit hypothesis based on the idea that whether a certain coping response is adaptive depends on the match between the coping response and what the problem situation ideally calls for.
