Sources of Stress
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- Sources of Stress
- Life Events
- Homles and Rahe (1967) SRRS
- Anita DeLongis et al (1982)
- Evaluation
- Hassles and health had better correlation that life events and health
- Individual differences affect the extent which a hassle is stressful or not
- Overlooks many chronic stresses like poor housing, low incomes, unsatisfying houses etc. Health is probably affected by life events, chronic stresses and daily hassles
- Khan and Patel (1996) older people have less severe hassles than younger people
- Evaluation
- Work-related Stress
- Johansson et al (1978) controlled job workers exercise more SAM and had higher levels of absenteeism and psychosomatic illnesses
- Burnout
- Maslach and Jackson (1982) measurements of burnout
- Emotional exhaustion
- Depersonalisation
- Perceived inadequacy
- Maslach and Jackson (1982) measurements of burnout
- Noise
- Glass et al (1969) students noise study
- Predictability and controllability
- Cohen at al (1991) colds and control/ predictability
- Gardner (1978) repeat of noise study
- Brady (1958) monkey study
- Langer and Rodin (1976) nursing home study
- Control vs lack of control
- Marmot et al (1997) lowest employment highest stress
- Role conflict
- Shirom (1989) more control means more role conflict
- Morgolis and Kroes (1974) perceived role conflict and CHD
- Individual Differences
- Personality types
- Friedman and Rosenman (1959) A B
- Morm et al (1981) C
- Hardiness
- Kobasa (1979) 3 C's
- Kobasa et al (1985) hardiness and health
- Funk (1992) criticised hardiness model
- Gender
- Stone et al (1990) women less increases in blood pressure
- Frankenhauser et al (1976) boys more stress hormones in exam
- Light et al (1980) oestrogen helps with stress
- Culture
- Weg (1983) Abkarzians
- Anderson et al (1989) black surpressed anger
- Gentry et al (1981) black supressed anger
- Anderson (1991) acculturation stress
- Cooper et al (1999) black americans vs black africans
- Bailey and Dua (1999) Asians in Australia
- Evaluation
- supportive evidence
- correlational not causal relationships
- Miller and Rahe (1997) women just report more stresses
- Reductionist approach of catergorisation
- Personality types
- Life Events
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