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CHAPTER 3
Stress &Health Psychology
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• Understanding Stress
• Stress & Illness
• Health Psychology in Action
• Health & Stress Management
Lecture Overview
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Understanding Stress
• What is stress?
– Nonspecific response of the body to any demand made on it;
– physical & mental arousal to situations or events that we perceive as threatening or challenging
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Understanding Stress: Sources of Stress
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Understanding Stress: Sources of Stress (Continued)
• Life Changes: life events that require some adjustment in behavior or lifestyle
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Understanding Stress: Sources of Stress (Continued)
• Cataclysmic Events: stressors that occur suddenly & generally affect many people simultaneously
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Understanding Stress: Sources of Stress (Continued)
• Chronic Stress: state of ongoing arousal in which the parasympathetic system cannot activate the relaxation response
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Understanding Stress: Sources of Stress (Continued)
• Job Stress: work related stress, including unemployment, keeping or changing jobs, job performance, etc.
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Understanding Stress: Sources of Stress (Continued)
• Job Stress – Burnout = state of
psychological & physical exhaustion resulting from chronic exposure to high levels of stress & little personal control
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Understanding Stress: Sources of Stress (Continued)
• Hassles: small, everyday problems that accumulate to become a major source of stress
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Pause & Reflect: Pause & Reflect: Psychology & Life Psychology & Life
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Understanding Stress: Sources of Stress (Continued)
Frustration: unpleasant tension resulting from a blocked goal
Conflict: forced choice between two or more incompatible goals or impulses
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Understanding Stress: Sources of Stress (Continued)
Three Types of Conflict• Approach-Approach: forced choice between
two or more desirable alternatives• Avoidance-Avoidance: forced choice between
two or more undesirable alternatives• Approach-Avoidance: forced choice between
two or more alternatives both having desirable & undesirable results
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Assuming this man is attracted to one of these women, is he experiencing an approach-approach, approach-avoidance, or avoidance-avoidance conflict?
Pause & Reflect: Pause & Reflect: AssessmentAssessment
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Understanding Stress: Effects of Stress
• SAM System (Sympatho-Adreno-Medullary): initial, fast-acting stress response
• HPA Axis (Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical): Body’s delayed stress response, which helps restore body’s homeostasis. If extended may lead to impairment of the immune system & increased vulnerability to disease
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Understanding Stress: Effects of Stress
SAM System HPA Axis
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The General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
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Understanding Stress: Effects of Stress (Continued)
• Psychoneuro- immunology: interdisciplinary field that studies the effects of psychological & other factors on the immune system
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Stress & IllnessCancer: related to genetic predisposition & environmental
factors
Cardiovascular Disorders: related to stress hormones, personality types, & certain behaviors
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): anxiety disorder following extraordinary stress
Gastric Ulcers: caused by bacteria or stress? Or both?
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The Immune System in Action
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• Type A Personality: behavior characteristics that include intense ambition, competition, exaggerated time urgency, & a cynical, hostile outlook
• Type B Personality: behavior characteristics consistent with a calm, patient, relaxed attitude
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• Hardiness: resilient type of optimism that comes from three distinctive attitudes—commitment, control, & challenge
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• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): anxiety disorder following exposure to a life-threatening or other extreme event that evoked great horror or helplessness; characterized by flashbacks, nightmares, & impaired functioning.
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Stress & Illness: PTSD (Continued)
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Stress & Illness: PTSD (Continued)
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• Why do so many people believe gastric ulcers, painful lesions to the lining of the stomach & upper part of the small intestine, are caused by stress?
Pause & Reflect: Pause & Reflect: Critical Thinking Critical Thinking
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1. Briefly describe Selye’s three stage General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS).
2. _____ is an anxiety disorder following extraordinary stress.
Pause & Reflect: Pause & Reflect: AssessmentAssessment
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Health Psychology in Action
Social Psychological
Biological
• Health Psychology: studies how biological, psychological, & social factors affect health & illness (the biopsychosocial model)
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Health Psychology in Action
• Major Health Risks:1.Tobacco2.Alcohol & Binge
Drinking3.Chronic Pain
(lasting over 6 months)
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Health Psychology in Action: Tobacco
• Why do people start smoking?
1. Peer pressure & imitation of role models (particularly important for young people)
2. Nicotine is addictive
3. Smokers learn to associate smoking with pleasant things (e.g., good food, friends, etc.), as well as with the “high” that nicotine gives them
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• How have anti-smoking laws unintentionally made it more difficult to quit?
Pause & Reflect: Pause & Reflect: Critical Thinking Critical Thinking
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• Smokers often overestimate their risk of dying from homicide & traffic accidents, while greatly underestimating their risk from smoking. Studying Chapter 3 helps overcome these faulty beliefs.
Pause & Reflect: Pause & Reflect: Psychology & Life Psychology & Life
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Health Psychology in Action: Alcohol
• Why does the American Medical Association consider alcohol to be the most dangerous & physically damaging of all drugs?
1. After tobacco, it’s the leading cause of premature death in America & most European countries.
2. It may cause serious brain damage.
3. It appears to increase aggression.
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• Binge Drinking: occurs when a man consumes five or more drinks, or a woman consumes four or more drinks in about two hours.
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Health Psychology in Action: Chronic Pain
• How do health psychologists treat chronic pain?
1. Behavior modification
2. Biofeedback
3. Relaxation techniques
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Health & Stress Management
• Two initial steps in coping
with stress: Primary Appraisal
& then Secondary Appraisal
• Two choices after secondary appraisal:
1. Emotion-Focused (managing one’s emotional reaction to a stressful situation)
2. Problem-Focused (dealing directly with a stressor to decrease or eliminate it)
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Health & Stress Management—
Cognitive Appraisal &
Coping
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• Is this an example of emotion- or problem-focused coping?
Pause & Reflect: Pause & Reflect: Critical Thinking Critical Thinking
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Health & Stress Management
• Resources for Healthy Living
1. Health & Exercise
2. Positive Beliefs
3. Social Skills
4. Social Support
5. Material Resources
6. Control (Internal Locus of Control)
7. Relaxation
8. Sense of Humor
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• Considering these eight resources for health & stress management, which resource do you most often use? Which one do you use least often? Why?
Pause & Reflect: Pause & Reflect: Critical Thinking Critical Thinking
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End of CHAPTER 3
Stress &Health Psychology
Stress &Health Psychology