PUBHLTH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Procrastination, Cardiovascular Disease, Personalization
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(lesson 10) public health 10: stress management: a ___________ analysis has been shown to help combat pessimism. If other people fail me, they are useless: the three basic dimensions to learned pessimism are: Pervasiveness: research studies on procrastination support the idea that some people do their best work "in the 11th hour" or under pressure. The researchers found that "procrastinators reported lower stress and less illness than nonprocrastinators early in the semester, but they reported higher stress and more illness late in the term, and overall they were sicker. Procrastination thus appears to be a self-defeating behavior pattern marked by short-term benefits and long-term costs" (p. 454): type a behavior is a possible risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Framingham researchers noted that not all of the variance in cardiovascular health could be explained by typical risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking, and elevated cholesterol levels.
