Psychology /Mors 200 Arts Final - Chapter 12 Discovering Psychology Notes Part 2
Mors 200 Arts Final - Chapter 12 Discovering Psychology Notes Part 2
This deck covers key concepts from Chapter 12 of the Discovering Psychology notes, focusing on stress, burnout, socioeconomic status, acculturation, and the physiological responses to stress.
More likely to report daily stress that is school or work related.
Men
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More likely to report daily stress that is school or work related.
Men
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Stress at work or school tends to affect home life.
Both men and women
Can produce a pressure cooker environment that takes a significant toll on physical health.
Work stress
People feel exhausted- used up all physical and emotional resources. Cynicism - Demonstrating negative or overly detached attitudes toward the job or work environment. Feel unappreciated. Failure or inadequacy- may feel incompetent or unproductive and have a sharply reduced sense of accomplishment
3 Key components of burnout
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When the demands of the job exceed the worker's ability to meet them.
Overload
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The more control you have over your work and work environment, the less stressful it is.
Lack of control
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
More likely to report daily stress that is school or work related. | Men |
Stress at work or school tends to affect home life. | Both men and women |
Can produce a pressure cooker environment that takes a significant toll on physical health. | Work stress |
People feel exhausted- used up all physical and emotional resources. Cynicism - Demonstrating negative or overly detached attitudes toward the job or work environment. Feel unappreciated. Failure or inadequacy- may feel incompetent or unproductive and have a sharply reduced sense of accomplishment | 3 Key components of burnout |
When the demands of the job exceed the worker's ability to meet them. | Overload |
The more control you have over your work and work environment, the less stressful it is. | Lack of control |
Supportive co-workers, a sense of teamwork, and a positive work environment can all buffer workplace stress and prevent burnout. | Community (in the workplace) |
People who live under difficult or unpleasant conditions often experience this. low socioeconomic class low social status racism and discrimination clashing of cultures | Chronic stress |
The measure of overall status in a society. Income Education occupation Strong association of physical health and the longevity with this. | Socioeconomic status (SES) |
Highest levels of pathological stress, illness, premature death associated with poorer physical health fewer resources available to them | Less privileged people |
3/4 African american adolescents treated as incompetent or dangerous or both Increases the risk for stress related health problems such as hypertension | Racism and discrimination |
Subtle instances of racism. | Microaggressions |
Stress of adapting to a new culture. | clashing of cultures |
One of the earliest contributors to stress research. influential theory of emotion Identified the fight or flight response | Walter Cannon |
Should I seek positive relations with the dominant society? Is my original culture identity of value to me and should i try to maintain it? | Two questions people are faced with when adapting to a new culture |
Continue to value their own customs but also seek to become part of dominant society. | Integrated |
Associated with higher self esteem and lower levels of depression, anxiety, and stress. May be the most adaptive acculturation pattern. Embraced by integrated individuals | Bicultural |
Give up their old culture identity and try to become part of a new society. They adopt the customs and social values of the new environment, and abandon their original cultural traditions. moderate level of stress because it involves psychological loss | Assimilated |
Maintain their cultural identity and avoid contact with the new culture. refuse to learn new language live in a neighborhood that is primarily populated by members of their own ethnic group sometimes due to the society's unwillingness to accept the new immigrants high levels of stress | Separation |
Lack cultural and psychological contact with both their traditional group and the culture of their new society. lost important features of their traditional culture but have not replaced them with a new cultural identity rare Associated with the greatest degree of acculturative stress feel as though they do not belong anywhere | Marginalized |
Prompting behaviors that jeopardize physical well-being not eating or sleeping properly- interferes with attention, concentration, memory, decision making Increases the likelihood of accidents and injuries | Indirect effects of stress |
Altering body functions physical symptoms, illness, disease cancer or diabetes later in life | Direct effects of stress |
Helps ensure survival by swiftly mobilizing internal physical resources to defensively attack of flee an immediate threat. | Short-term fight-or-flight response |
Research was done with rats that are exposed to prolonged stressors. adrenal glands became enlarged stomach ulcers and loss of weight occurred shrinkage of the thymus gland and lymph glands (two key components of the immune system) | Hans Sely |
Hypothalamus => sympathetic nervous system => adrenal medulla => secretion of catecholamines
| Pathway 1 : fight-or-flight response - Acute stress |