PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Psy
Document Summary
Problem focused coping and seeking social support often demonstrate favorable adjustment in stressors, while emotion focused coping often predict depression and poor adjustment. In hostage studies, problem focused coping and seeking social support fare better than those with no strategy, but emotion focused coping was found to help individuals adapt most to uncontrollable conditions of captivity. People with high stress who are too emotionally restrained to express negative feelings have a higher likelihood of developing cancer. Men are more likely to use problem focused coping, while women often seek social support and use emotion focused coping. Gate control theory the experience of pain results from the opening and closing of gating mechanisms in the nervous system. Sensations from two types of sensory fibres enter the spinal cord, and activate neurons that travel up toward the brain regions responsible for our perception of pain. Thin fibres carry sharp pain impulses, thick fibres carry dull pain information.
