PPE 3004 Chapter 12
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- What are disease prone personalities?
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People with certain personalities take greater risks with their health ï‚¢ so die sooner
Certain types of people are more prone to diseases (i.e. more likely to have health problems) and to premature death because of their personality-influenced behavior - Zuckerman's sensation seeking
- Sensation-seeking individuals tend to take part in more risky behaviors
- Farley’s Type T theory
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“Thrill Seekingâ€
Suggests a psychological need for stimulation due to an internal arousal deficit - Should a person with Type T personality be allowed to engage in thrill seeking behavior?
- Yes, so long as it is appropriate.
- the sick role
- The sick role is the set of societal expectations about how you should behave when you are not healthy
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Certain people respond to stressful life events by entering the sick role when there is no organic reason.
Why from a behaviorist standpoint? Cognitive psychologist? -
It is rewarding (positive (being taken care of) and negative (miss school))
Cognitive= attention and interpretations of bodily sensations. - disease or genetic predispositions to illness that affect personality
- somatopsychic effect
- Borderline Personality disorder includes ____ behaviors
- Impulsive, self-destructive, fragile self-identity, unstable relationships
- How is borderline personality disorder explained from a psychoanalytic, neoanalytic, and biological standpoint?
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Psychoanalytic- disruptions in psychosexual stages
neoanalytical- children do not develop trust and attachment that would be the basis for future relations.
Biological-children come from families where affective disorders are common. (Tempramental predispositions) - What is diathesis?
- The predisposition of the body to a disease or disorder
- What is the diathesis-stress model?
- suggests that although a predisposition to illness exists, the illness itself will not appear unless or until it is elicited by the environment
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A tense, competitive style that is especially likely to be associated with coronary heart disease
____________ are constantly struggling to do more and more in less and less time ï‚¢ results in excessive arousal of the sympathetic nervous syst - Type A Personality
- Termite study: Childhood conscientiousness was correlated with...
- longevity
- Sociability and longevity?
- No evidence that being extroverted prolongs one's life
- Cheerfulness and longevity?
- Cheerfulness is predictive of premature mortality
- children of divorced parents face _____ % higher chance of premature death than non-divorced.
- 33%
- participants with married parents lived on average _____
- 4 more years
- what kind of study was the termite study?
- Longitudinal study
- The Self-healing personality
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Mrs. Braucher
Control
Do not feel powerless in the face of external challenges
Commitment
Feel committed to something important and meaningful
Challenge
Respond to life with excitement and energy - Two types of Self-healing personalities
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1) The active healthy personality
Functions best in a somewhat stressful environment
Outgoing and spontaneous
2) The relaxed healthy personality
Functions best in a low-stress environment
Calm and philosophical - Healthy people first need to achieve balance in their basic biological needs and secure affection and self-respect THEN they can worry about beauty, justice, ethics, harmony
- Growth Orientation
- Experiences of positive emotions (i.e., joy, interest, contentment) can broaden people’s modes of thinking and responding FINALLY this brings more possible actions to mind
- Broaden and build model
- Identity and purpose
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For people who have had a brush with serious illness, some make life-changes
Tend to be always toward self-fulfillment
A person’s sense of dignity has implications for health - Individuals view their lives to be ordered and clear, not chaotic and inexplicable
- Salutogenesis
- An important component of Salutogenesis is _____
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Sense of Coherence
A person’s confidence that the world is understandable, manageable, and meaningful