Psychology 2990A/B Chapter 3: Chapter 3 - Health Psychology - Psych Applications 2990

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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When people undergo major upheaval in lives, chance of dying increases. Holocaust survivors, particularly those who were young adults or teens at end of. Abuse first nations children had in residential schools still have traumatic effects. University life filled with stress psych stress higher among students than. Hans selye defined stress as (cid:271)ody"s physiologi(cid:272)al respo(cid:374)se to threate(cid:374)i(cid:374)g e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts: focused on how human body adapts to threats from environment, regardless of source of threat, whether psychological or physiological trauma. Respondents get list of life events each assigned points depending on stress level. People check events that have occurred in past year, points are added to get (cid:862)life (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge(cid:863) s(cid:272)ore. Higher the score, worse physical and mental health. Another problem: inventories like holmes and rahes scale focuses on stressors experienced by middle class and under-represents stressors experienced by poor and minorities (poverty and racism cause stress too)