PSY 707 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6&7: Internalizing Disorder, Extraversion And Introversion, Psychoticism
30 Nov 2013
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Health related behavior models focus on how personality factors influence health related behaviors: certain personality factors predispose us to engage in more health protective behaviors or more health risk ones. Moderation models personality influences the strength or direction of the relationship between stress and health. It is an intervening variable and can intensify stress or reduce the impact. Personality: overall pattern of thoughts emotions and behaviors that define a person: temperament: biologically based foundation of personality. Traits: characteristics or elements of personality that predispose a person to respond in certain ways: sometimes referred to as dispositions. Factor analysis uses multiple correlations to determine which measured elements cluster together. Common elements that cluster form a factor that is named for the common theme (i. e. timid, modest and reserved = shyness) Cattell proposed 16 distinct correlated factors or source traits. Eysenck used uncorrelated factors to map personality. Regarded the traits as continuous variable; varying degrees of the trait.
