PSY 3340 Test Review: Coping, Affectivity, Social Support, and Pain - Prof. Stuart B. Bonn, Study notes of Health psychology

Download PSY 3340 Test Review: Coping, Affectivity, Social Support, and Pain - Prof. Stuart B. Bonn and more Study notes Health psychology in PDF only on Docsity! PSY 3340 Test Review Chapter 7, 8 & 10  Coping- thoughts and behaviors used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressful  Negative affectivity- a persuasive negative mood marked by anxiety, depression, and hostility; related to poor health  Optimism – leads to better coping mechanisms and reduces risk of illness, optimistic people differ from pessimists in physiological functioning, are problem focused  High self-esteem helps low stress  Avoidant (minimizing) coping style- helpful if one can focus on the info present in the situation rather than on one’s emotions and if specific actions can be taken to reduce the stressor  approach (confrontative,vigilant) coping style- may engage in the cognitive and emotional efforts needed to deal with long-term threats  Emotion-focused coping – regulating emotions experienced because of the stressful event *not good to use when two exams in same day, problem-focused better* *emotion-focused better w/waiting for test results  Types of social support o Tangible assistance (loaning money) o Information support o Emotional support (people care about you) o Invisible support  Buffering hypothesis- the health benefits and mental health benefits of social support are chiefly evident during periods of high stress; when there is little stress, social support may have few health benefits  Neuroticism is linked to more likely report physical symptoms  Medical students’ disease- as medical students study an illness, many imagine they have it  Recognition of symptoms – stress, mood  3 models of illness o Acute o Chronic o Cyclic (having symptoms in & out)  Adolescents/young adults less likely to use health services, child/elderly more likely  Between wealthy & poor, prevent health  Somaticizers’- those who express distress and conflict through bodily symptoms  Secondary gain- use symptoms to get out of something  Illness delay- the time between recognizing that a symptom implies an illness and the decision to seek treatment  Study of wartime injures vs civilian injures, wartime injuries better b/c have meaning  Nervous system in athletes injures – sympathetic  Perception of pain = no subseption  A delta fibers – fibers transmit sharp pain  C fibers – transmit chronic pain