PSYC 231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Cardiovascular Disease, Extraversion And Introversion, Abstract Animation
11 Apr 2016
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Some people have certain personality traits, cognitions, values, and beliefs that protect them in times of stress (hardiness) Resilience: the ability to recover from tragedy, adversity, hardship, or to adapt to ongoing life stressors. There are at least 4 possible responses for traumatic events: thriving, resilience (recovering, survival with impairment, succumbing. 4 kinds of models proposed for how personality impacts health: health behaviour model: some people (like those higher in. Conscientiousness) adopt a healthier lifestyle and take better care of themselves: transactional stress moderation model: some personality traits, like neuroticism, may influence a person"s exposure to stressful or dangerous circumstances, constitutional predisposition model: suggests that there may be. 4. some underlying genetic or constitutional factor that influences both personality and disease. Interactional stress moderation model: suggests that personality characteristics modify physiological responses by reducing or increasing them. Personality characteristics could have correlation with a person"s likelihood to get sick under stress.
