Psychology 2035A/B Chapter 7: 7. Moderators of the stress experience

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

Document Summary

Moderators of the stress experience: 1998: ice storm across on, qc, nb, ns -> million households without power for hours to days. What is coping: coping: the thoughts and behaviours used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressful. Important type of health behaviour that can have far-(cid:396)ea(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)es fo(cid:396) a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s health. Personality and coping: can be a result of both genes and environmental factors, personalities that improve stressful situations: internal coping resources that increase resilience, personalities that make situations worse: risk factors. Interfere with sleep quality, negative self-evaluations, lower self-compassion: may compromise coping in a bad way, negativity can sometimes create a false impression of poor health when none exists and can make people more vulnerable to illnesses. Additional coping resources: self-esteem: those who had affirmed important personal values had significantly lower cortisol responses, conscientiousness: high more likely to live to an old age.