Psychology AQA Unit 2 Stress - Daily hassles
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- Created on: 05-05-13 12:35
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- Stress: Daily Hassles
- "Any idiot can handle a crisis. It's the day to day living that wears you down" - Chekhov
- Daily hassles are the relatively minor events that occur in day to day living, e.g: homework, traffic, embarrassment, etc
- Research suggests that the effects of daily hassles can be offset by positive events called 'daily uplifts'
- Gervais (2005) - found that nurses reported more uplifts than hassles in their work
- Lazarus - designed a Hassles Scale containing 117 items. he later added an uplifts scale with 135 items
- Kanner - found that scores on the Hassles Scale correlated with anxiety, depression and health problems
- Delongis - found that the correlation for daily hassles and health problems was greater than for life events and health problems
- Ruffin - found similar evidence to Delongis in research in Australia
- Bouteyre - found evidence of stress illness in french first year uni students who found it difficult to handle life away from home
- The daily build up of minor stressors produce long term, chronic, bodily response.
- Long-term increases the heart rate & blood pressure which are damaging to the cadio-vascular system
- This causes the thymus gland to shrink and causes immuno-suppression
- Long-term increases the heart rate & blood pressure which are damaging to the cadio-vascular system
- Evaluation: cultural differences - where the cultural norm is based on social help and strong community involvement
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