Stress - March mock
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- Created on: 21-02-17 12:41
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- Stress - March Mock
- Outline sympathomedullary pathway and pituitary-adrenal system
- Acute and sympathomedullary: Hypothalamus - autonomic nervous system - sympathetic branch - adrenal medulla - hormones e.g. adrenaline and noradrenaline - adrenaline (heart rate, breathing, digestion) - parasympathetic
- Chronic and the Hypothalamic Pituitary-Adrenal System: hypothalamus - corticotrophin releaseing factor - pituitary gland - adrenocortiocotrophic hormone - adrenal cortex - corticosteroids - blood sugar
- Sources of stress
- Lack of control
- This refers an employee feeling as if they have little control over the work they undertake in their working day - deadlines and work environment - and the extent to which they can work autonomously e.g. unable to control working conditions and deadlines
- Workload
- the amount of work to be done by someone or something e.g. lots of emails
- Lack of control
- Difference between life events and daily hassles
- Life events:Infrequent and major events e.g. getting married
- Daily hassels: The relatively minor frustrations and annoyances of everyday life e.g. traffic
- Use of different self-report measures
- Advantage of interviews over questionnaires: can clarify if the individual is confused
- Relationship between stress and immune system
- Cortiocosteriods produces as a result of chronic stress can shrink the thymus gland, preventing the growth of T cells. Also interferes with the production of antibodies
- Cancer, chronic fatigue disorder, influenza
- Kiecolt-Glaser et al. (1984): procedure: natural, 75 medical students, questionnaires, 2 blood samples, T-cells, one month before final exams and another during findings: T-cell activity reduced, reduced most in those who reported high levels of life events and loneliness, limitation: difficult to establish cause-effect - cannot be certain that stress caused decrease in T-cell activity
- Outline sympathomedullary pathway and pituitary-adrenal system
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