PSY 320 Lecture Notes - Negative Affectivity, Occupational Stress, The Spirit Level (Poetry Collection)
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J a n u a r y 2 8 , 2 0 1 3. Overview: individual differences, types of social support, effects of social support, mechanisms of social support, stress management and outcomes. The person"s constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the person"s resources. If it changes, it must be a process. A stressful encounter is a dynamic process. Coping is a process, response change as the stressful encounter unfolds. Coping is contextual, it is related to both situational demands and individual psychological resources. Dispositional optimism - general expectations that outcomes will be positive: life orientation test revised (scheier & carver, stronger immune responses, mortality, and more social support, cultivating positive emotions and modifying patterns of negative self-talk. Broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (fredrickson: positive emotions (e. g. love, joy, interest, commitment) broaden one"s thought action repertoire and build enduring psychosocial resources.
