Psychology unit 2 stress
still working on it. Last minute revision for me haha
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- Created on: 29-05-13 15:04
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- Life events
- Holmes and Rahe
- Claimed if a score was over 150 over 12 months there was a 30% increase in stress related illness
- Over 300=80%
- Qualitative
- Out dated
- Claimed if a score was over 150 over 12 months there was a 30% increase in stress related illness
- Rahe et al
- Gave SRRS to 2500 US navy soldiers before their tour of duty
- Life events during past 6 months noted
- Have to remember, may forget something
- illness recorded during 7 month tour of duty
- Soldiers may not have noted illness
- All in similar conditions
- Soldiers with a higher LCU had more illness
- Life events during past 6 months noted
- Gave SRRS to 2500 US navy soldiers before their tour of duty
- Holmes and Rahe
- Noticed illness followed a major life event
- Holmes and Rahe
- Claimed if a score was over 150 over 12 months there was a 30% increase in stress related illness
- Over 300=80%
- Qualitative
- Out dated
- Claimed if a score was over 150 over 12 months there was a 30% increase in stress related illness
- Examined 5000 people
- Found a large number of them had a recent life event
- Holmes and Rahe
- Top=death of spouse (LCU=100)
- Asked 394 people to rate them upto 100 based on the impact they'd have
- Lowest=minor violation of law (LCU=11)
- Middle=Marriage (LCU=50)
- Not all people react to life changes in the same way
- Asked 394 people to rate them upto 100 based on the impact they'd have
- Population validity low becase all US and male
- Gave SRRS to 2500 US navy soldiers before their tour of duty
- Life events during past 6 months noted
- Have to remember, may forget something
- illness recorded during 7 month tour of duty
- Soldiers may not have noted illness
- All in similar conditions
- Soldiers with a higher LCU had more illness
- Life events during past 6 months noted
- Gave SRRS to 2500 US navy soldiers before their tour of duty
- Correlation of 0.118
- Correlational study, no cause or effect
- Daily hassles&uplifts
- Stress
- Life events
- Rahe et al
- Rahe et al
- Accumilation effect
- Persistent minor hassles build up over time
- Amplication effect
- stressful effects amplify trivial events
- Action theory
- Work
- Johansson et al
- Sweedish saw mill workers
- Loud dusty conditions
- isolated
- has to work fast
- More adrenaline
- More days off
- Loud dusty conditions
- Cleaners
- Could talk and work at their own pace
- low adrenaline levels
- Less days off
- Could talk and work at their own pace
- population validity low as all participants were swedish
- Natural conditions
- Sweedish saw mill workers
- Marmot et al
- Studied 7372 civil servants age 35-55
- over 5 years=longitudinal
- paricipants completed a questionare about how much control in their job they had and their lifestyle
- found that higher grade personnel had less cardiovascular problems
- Lowest grade were 1.5 more likely to have signs of CHD
- Self report, social desirability
- main cause of stress identified
- low population validity, all civil servants age 35-55
- Lack of control can cause stress
- Studied 7372 civil servants age 35-55
- Johansson et al
- Personality
- Type A/B
- Friedman and Rosenman
- Noticed similarity in personalities of patients who suffered from stress related illness
- Studied 3200 californian males over 8 years
- Population validity
- All healthy at the start
- Went through structured interviews to find perosnality type
- Social desirability
- 257 participants developed heart problems
- 70% were identified as type A
- Went through structured interviews to find perosnality type
- A
- hurried
- Impatient
- B
- Patient
- Friedman and Rosenman
- Hardiness
- Kobasa
- 600 buisness executives
- Population validity
- SRRS and a questionare on illness over the last three years
- 600 buisness executives
- Kobasa
- Type A/B
- Life events
- Delongis et al
- HSUP scale
- Gervais studied nurses
- Negatives affected their job performance
- Positives offset negatives, improved performance
- nurses=popilation validity poor
- Stufies show this is a bigger case of stress than life events
- more flexable than SRRS
- retrospective data is only as accurate as paricipants memories
- Stress
- Daily hassles cause us to spend exta energy to get to original goal
- Action theory
- Able to relax
- B
- Patient
- B
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