Health Psychology, 2nd Edition

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Chapter 5 Coping and social support support 5 CHAPTER PLAN Chapters 3 and 4 examined a range of theories relating stress to heal ...

92 COPING RESOURCES When you have completed this chapter you should be able to: 1 Describe and critically evaluate studies of co ...

reappraisal. Some subsequent researchers have criticized these measures on the grounds that other studies have failed to replica ...

strategies than the WOC questionnaire. However, there is considerable overlap between these two measures and both have proved po ...

even though the response is very different. Skinner et al. (2003: 248) suggest that there is a need for a comprehensive list of ...

96 COPING RESOURCES there is a discrepancy between their self-reports of anxiety (that are low) and their scores on physiologica ...

repressors need to be distinguishable from those who are simply not anxious. Weinberger, Schwartz and Davidson (1979) have devel ...

98 COPING RESOURCES included information to reassure and address anxiety. Messages that were matched to monitoring style were mo ...

COPING AND SOCIAL SUPPORT 99 Direct effects, mediation and moderation Researchers examining coping and social support have inves ...

100 COPING RESOURCES Positive approaches to coping It has been argued that coping research has focused unduly on the causes and ...

may simply become too tiring. Folkman and Moskowitz (2000) summarize other potential functions. These include (a) helping us to ...

102 COPING RESOURCES There is also evidence suggesting that benefit finding is related to improved immune functioning (see Bower ...

RESILIENCE The term ‘Resilience’ as a psychological construct was first used in the developmental literature to describe the abi ...

104 COPING RESOURCES literature on what factors contribute to resilience. Bonanno (2012: 754) defines resilience as a ‘stable tr ...

Throughout this section on coping, we have seen that drawing on social support resources can make a positive contribution to cop ...

106 COPING RESOURCES scores on the index were about twice as likely to die as those with high scores, even after controlling for ...

women. These both related to trying to find causes or explanations for the cancer. However, reactions to other types of support ...

108 COPING RESOURCES presence of stressors. Second, social support may buffer or moderate the impact of stressors on health so t ...

negative impact of offering social support. This may be an extreme example where giving support is damaging because it is extrem ...