PS389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychological Stress, Flight Attendant, Peter Salovey
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Psychological stress is a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being (lazarus and folkman, 1984: 19) Intense emotions were originally seen as dysfunctional and irrational. I blame myself for becoming too emotional . I get upset and let my emotions out . Active movement toward (approach), rather than away from (avoidance), a stressful encounter. E. g. , i feel free to express my emotions . Research on effectiveness of approach-oriented emotion-focused coping and: Westerners seem to benefit from expressing emotions in a meaningful way. Asian cultures encourage suppression of emotion, to preserve harmony. Being expected to emote in a way that does not fit your personal/cultural style may cause stress and poor coping. Reuvan bar-on: are there factors that determine one"s ability to be effective. Very quickly, i saw that people can have very high iqs, but not succeed.
