Health Psychology : a Textbook

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10 Stress CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter examines definitions of stress and looks at the early models of stress in terms of the f ...

WHAT IS STRESS? The term ‘stress’ means many things to many different people. A layperson may define stress in terms of pressure ...

‘exhaustion’, which was reached when the individual had been repeatedly exposed to the stressful situation and was incapable of ...

someone who had experienced both the death of a spouse and the death of a close family member would receive the same score as so ...

Life experiences may interact with each other When individuals are asked to complete a checklist of their recent life experience ...

They incorporated these factors into their measure (the Life Stressors and Social Resources Inventory, LISRES), which represente ...

Lazarus’s model of appraisal and the transaction between the individual and the environment indicated a novel way of looking at ...

This could indicate that either appraisal is not always necessary or that at times indi- viduals do not acknowledge their level ...

1.Self-efficacy. In 1987, Lazarus and Folkman suggested that self-efficacy was a powerful factor for mediating the stress respon ...

(ii)Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) activation: In addition to the above sympathetic activation, stress also trigger ...

response on the illness or health status of the individual. Stress reactivity is thought to be dispositional and may either be g ...

after an examination, during a job interview or whilst undergoing physical activity. Naturalistic research also examines the imp ...

focus more on an individual’s own perception of stress. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS, Cohen et al. 1983) is the most commonly ...

FOCUS ON RESEARCH 10.1: PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE Psychophysiological effects of relaxation training in children (Lohaus et a ...

Physiological measures: Measures were taken of heart rate, skin temperature and skin conductance level. Self-report measures: Me ...

takes into account physical activity levels (as this produces a similar response to the stressor); and when the laboratory task ...

of stress regarded stress as an automatic response to an external stressor. However, the introduction of the concept of appraisa ...

ASSUMPTIONS IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY The stress research highlights some of the assumptions in health psychology. 1.Dividing up the ...

11 Stress and illness CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter first assesses whether stress causes illness and then explores a chronic and ...