Stress.
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- Created on: 28-11-13 09:04
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- Stress.
- Causes of stress
- Work - Johansson's saw mill.
- Quasi- experiment
- independent groups design.
- group one: finishers, highly skilled, responsible for the wages of their team.
- group 2: cleaners and maintenance workers, could work at there own pace.
- independent groups design.
- 24 participants.
- physiological measures: urine samples
- self report stating mood, alertness and caffeine and nicotine consumption
- Findings: first urine sample of the day found that risk groups adrenaline levels where higher then basline group
- Self report found that high risk group felt more rushed an irritated.
- Quasi- experiment
- Hassles - Kanner's hassles and uplifts scale.
- Repeated Measures Design.
- 100 people who had completed the health survey from 1965.
- More consistant from month to month
- Lack of Control - Geer and Maisel study
- Work - Johansson's saw mill.
- Managing stress
- Behavioural- Budzynski, biofeedback and reduction of tension headaches
- experiment
- 18 participants, self selected, all undertaken medical exam to ensure there is no other reason for the head aches
- independent measures design
- group 1: biofeedback sessions with relaxation training and EMG feedback
- group 2: relaxation techniques but had pseudo-feedback
- group 3: control told they were on a waiting list
- social support Waxler and Morrison, social relationships and cancer survival
- Quasi
- 133 women under 55 years with a confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer
- used questionnaire on demography, existing social networks, who they were responsible for, contact with friends and family.
- Survival and reoccurrence rate was checked
- 6 aspects of social network specifically linked
- marital status
- support from friends
- contact with friends
- total support
- social network
- employment.
- Behavioural- Budzynski, biofeedback and reduction of tension headaches
- Measuring Stress
- Physiological Measures - Geer and Miasel
- lab experiement
- 60 undergraduates at the university of new york on a psychology course
- independent groups design
- group 1: had control and predictabillity
- group 2: had no control but predictability
- group 3: had no control and no predictability
- seated in sound shielded room wired up to s GSR machine, the machine was baselined
- Self report- Holmes and Rahe, life events as stressors
- questionnaire
- 394- mixed ethnicities, religions and educational abilities.
- less correlation between black and white participant everyone else seemed to agree
- participant asked to rate 43 life events based on the amount of readjustment would be needed.
- Johanson saw mill (see causes of stress)
- Physiological Measures - Geer and Miasel
- Causes of stress
- Cognitive- Miechenbaum, stress inoculation therapy.
- Managing stress
- Behavioural- Budzynski, biofeedback and reduction of tension headaches
- experiment
- 18 participants, self selected, all undertaken medical exam to ensure there is no other reason for the head aches
- independent measures design
- group 1: biofeedback sessions with relaxation training and EMG feedback
- group 2: relaxation techniques but had pseudo-feedback
- group 3: control told they were on a waiting list
- social support Waxler and Morrison, social relationships and cancer survival
- Quasi
- 133 women under 55 years with a confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer
- used questionnaire on demography, existing social networks, who they were responsible for, contact with friends and family.
- Survival and reoccurrence rate was checked
- 6 aspects of social network specifically linked
- marital status
- support from friends
- contact with friends
- total support
- social network
- employment.
- Behavioural- Budzynski, biofeedback and reduction of tension headaches
- field experiment
- 21, aged 17-25 self selected
- matched pairs design
- group 1: SIT group
- group 2: systematic desensatisation
- control group
- STI showed better signs of improvement - better at reducing anxiety
- Managing stress
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