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What are the most revelent aspects of apprasial?
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Challenging or threatening, expected or unexpected, controllable or not
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Virtuous spiral
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Resources are increased, sucesses build on each other and the stressor is transformed into a caralyst for growth
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Helper therapy principal
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Providing aid to others promotes ones own well being
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Stressors
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Cirumstances that represent a threatened or actual loss or scarcity of resources
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Resources
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Material, social, and personal factors that promote health and personal wellbeing
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Stimulus based models
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Antecedent events(stressors) produce a reaction
eg. holmes and rahe life events scale |
Response based model
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Environmental situations lead to a stress response(consequence)
eg. general adaptation syndrome |
Transactional model
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Stress is the transaction between the characteristics of the environment and the social and personal resources avaliable to a person
based on ecological theory |
3 components of appriasial
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1. primary appraisal (estimating the strength of the stressor)
2. secondary appraisal (estimating the resources and coping options for responding to the stressor) 3. reappraisal (changing perceptions of the stressors intensity, identifying unrecognized resources, or finding meaning in the situation |
Social embeddedness
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Closer ties to family , friends, community or other social grouping
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Potential outcomes of stressors and stress reactions
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Wellness
resilience thriving empowerment or distress dysfunction clinical disorders |
Types of social support
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Material
emotional esteem informational companionship |