PSYC 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stress (Biology), Major Trauma, Stressor
21 Feb 2017
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Stress and coping: august 2005: hurricane katrina. 80% of parishes flooded, massive destruction, 15,000 people died. Lost house, stuff is gone, loss of food, injury. Fear and stress that hits before the storm. Definitions: stress: negative emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and physiological process that occurs as one adjust to stressors. Has some sort of emotional valence to it (negative) Your reaction to some set of events, physical or psychological: stressor: any circumstance that disrupts or potentially disrupts a person"s daily functioning. Entering college, taking on first job, getting married, etc: catastrophic events. Noxious environment (live near an airport runway) Asked people to compare different life events to getting married. Assume stress level for getting married is similar for everyone, set it at 50. Ask people what happened over the year, add up the lcu of events during the year. You can measure how stressed someone is based on this. Higher srrs scores associated with negative outcomes.
