PSYC 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.3: Executive Functions, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Hookah
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12. 3: coping with stress: social support- relationships with people groups and the larger community that can provide us with emotional comfort, personal, and financial resources. Encompasses interpersonal relationships: james house, cynthia robbins, and helen metzner replicated a previous study of. 9,000 participants social connections and probability of dying over nine years. Problem-focused: cognitive control- ability to think differently about negative emotions that rise as a result of stressful events. Emotion-focused coping used here when things happen outside our control: decisional control- ability to choose among alternatives course of action. (get control over stressful college experiences, consulting friends about which classes to take, which professors to avoid. ) Connected with lower mortality rate, more vigorous immune response, lower risk of heart failure and depressio(cid:374) follo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g a heart atta(cid:272)k : spirituality- the search for the sacred, which may or may not extend to belief in god. Many religions foster self-control and prohibit risky health behaviors.
