Health Psychology, 2nd Edition
response. The fourth is when an inadequate stress response causes the body to release extra, unnecessary hormones and other chem ...
STRESS THEORY AND RESEARCH 51 TABLE 3.1Social readjustment rating scale Rank Life events LCU* score 1 Death of spouse 100 2 Divo ...
Research on life events has also been criticized for the reliability and validity of measures (that is, do people produce the sa ...
STRESS THEORY AND RESEARCH 53 describe events, which are then rated by trained individuals. The most well-known example of this ...
limitations of the approach (which are discussed above) stem from the fact that it is essentially atheoretical (Lazarus, 1990). ...
STRESS THEORY AND RESEARCH 55 Using diaries in health psychology research Approaches to studying stress differ in their focus. F ...
56 STRESS AND HEALTH measured ‘uncontaminated by perceptions, appraisals or reactions’. While self-report measures are arguably ...
STRESS THEORY AND RESEARCH 57 Daily hassles and eating behaviour (O’Connor et al., 2008a) Background When under pressure we may ...
58 STRESS AND HEALTH Nowadays, a range of different types of approach to measuring hassles and other daily stressors are used. F ...
Researchers have found that hassles transmit their harmful effects directly through psychophysiological pathways as well as indi ...
stress hormones as well as exacerbating symptomatology and disrupting self-care behaviours in a number of chronic illness condit ...
Chapter 5). However, they also include a range of other factors such as financial/ material resources. The model predicts that w ...
his theory and resource loss is central to the idea of loss appraisal, for example in the grief process (e.g. Lazarus and Folkma ...
wear and tear. If such differences exist, then they may explain why some people are more likely to become ill as a result of str ...
stress. This is known as stress recovery and it is proposed that people who take longer to recover may be more vulnerable to fut ...
outcomes, research that has focused on the appraisal of stress (e.g. drawing on transactional theory) and research that has shed ...
66 STRESS AND HEALTH SAMPLE ESSAY TITLES ‘Having a stressful life increases the likelihood of contracting disease’. Evaluate th ...
Segerstrom, S.C. and O’Connor, D.B. (2012). Stress, health and illness: Four challenges for the future. Psychology and Health, 2 ...
PART 2 Stress and health in context 4 CHAPTER PLAN Chapter 3 examined a range of different approaches to stress and considered t ...
SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS, STRESS AND HEALTH Poverty is linked to poorer health within most countries. It is easy to think of reason ...
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