PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Sympathetic Nervous System, Hans Selye

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Alexis Arbuthnott

Document Summary

Life-span studies show personality can have lifelong effects on health, but these effects differ on traits being considered or health outcomes being looked at. Stress: subjective feeling produced by events that are uncontrollable or threatening. It is a response to perceived demands in situations, not the situation but how people respond to it. Interactional model: suggests objective events happen to people, but personality factors determine impact of events by influencing people"s ability to cope. Personality has effects on coping responses, how people respond: personality is assumed to moderate (influence) relationship between stress and illness. Personality makes people more/less vulnerable to stressful events: researchers were unable to identify stable coping responses that were consistently adaptive or maladaptive, transactional model: extension of interactional model. One person might be frustrated, other might enjoy the radio and relax: people don"t get respond to situations, they create them with their choices and actions. People choose to be in certain situations, and evoke responses from them.