SOC363H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Psychiatric Services, Food Craving, Stirling County Rfc
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The stress process model: mediating help to explain production of secondary stressors. Explain focal relationship: second link in chain, e. g. relationship between job insecurity and sleeping problem. If you draw it, looks like a very static system. One directional a causes b causes c. Mirowsky & ross (1990) findings: compared self-defense and control theories, self-defense theory would argue that inner coping mechanisms are associated with well being. People are less depressed if they claim responsibility for good events and don"t for bad events (self-defenders: control theory looks at ways in which control/sense of mastery are associated with low levels of depression. People who take responsibility for successes and failures have low levels of depression (low distress over time) overall internal control = less: external control = more depression depression, most individuals claim responsibility for success and failures. 4 types know them (instrumentalists, fatalists, self-defenders, and ____: more self-defenders than self-blamers. The stress process model: mental health outcomes.
