PSYC1023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Conscientiousness, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Ptsd and people may result in a burnout when experiencing high stress environments. They will experience exhaustion to an extreme, a burnout. Social support includes advice, tangible assistance and emotional help. Culture differences in support may predict mental and physical health. Setbacks may be temporary (optimism) or due to personal faults (pessimism) Conscientiousness people deal better with stress, same with exercising for stress and depression. Constructive means how you are going to constructively change to help the situation. Defensive is like getting drunk instead of coping. Death caused by pneumonia, tuberculosis, measles and typhoid fever have declined. However, at the same time, death from heart disease and cancer have increased. Smoking, poor nutrition, drugs and lack of exercise effect heart disease and cancer. Poor behaviours may gradually develop from pleasure like eating or relaxing. These behaviours do not happen overnight and now that these behaviours are causing illness, psychologists can have now a voice to interpret.
