STRESS - Psychology Alevel AQA Option P3 - summary mind map

PHYSIOLOGY OF STRESS SOURCES OF STRESS DAILY HASSLES
Short term (immediate) stressors = LIFE CHANGES The minor day to day stressor
Fight or flight response that build up and cause
S - sympathetic NS Holmes and Rahe (STUDY):
immense stress
A - Adrenaline SRRS
M - Medualla 43 life events - LCU score
Kanner (STUDY)
Long term stressors (ongoing)
HSUP = hassles and uplifts
H - Hypothalamus Rahe et al (STUDY):
100 participants
P - Pituitary gland (ACTH) Navy, positive correlation
Found that hassles
A - Adrenal cortex (Cortisol) between high LCU and
correlated with wellbeing
General adaptation syndrom (GAS) - illness
better than life events
Seyle
Alarm, resistence, exhaustion (rats study)




STRESS AND ILLNESS STRESS
Immediate stress - can lead to
cardiovascular disorders: MANAGING AND COPING WI
Cardiovasclar: Williams et al (STUDY):
13,000 anger scale - 6 years later - Stress inoculation Gender differe
high anger = 2 ½ more likely to therapy (SIT) Fight or flig
Biofeedback
have a heart attack Meichenbaun (STUDY) (testostero
Relaxation

Ongoing stress - cortisol reduces Form of CBT Matud (STUDY