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| Cicchetti's Model of Processes |
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everything is interrelated
Cognitive = social cognition, info processing, attributional style
Socioemotional = affect regulation, attachment, self-esteem, relationships
Biological = genetics, physiological processes, anomalies, or dysregulations
Representational = internal models, self-schema, self cognitions |
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Babies of depressed mothers were more psychologically stressed, had a negative affect, tended to divert gaze, were developing an insecure attachment |
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| Chronic stress = chronically high levels of cortisol |
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| Lazurus and Folkman, 1989 |
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Stress Response
Physical, Emotional, Cognitive, Behavioral
Stress Mediators
Predictability and control
Interpretation
-Problem-focused: Confronting, seeking social support, planful problem-solving
-Emotion-focused: self-controlling, distancing, positive reappraisal, accepting responsibility, wishful thinking
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| If you believe your oping strategry will work, it will. The best coping strategies are positive reappraisal and seeking social support. |
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Cultural difference in seeking social support
Americans sought out explicit social support (talk to friends about feelings)
Koreans sought out implicit social support (talk to friends but don't disclose feelings) |
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| Broaden and Build Theory: If we focus on positive emotion, we can broaden and build our base of coping with the environment. If we focus on negative emotion, we narrow our concentration and reduce our ability to process information. |
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| Studied chronic pain patients and alcoholics. Found that we first try problem-focused coping and if that doesn't work we moved to emotional-focused coping |
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Longitudinal study of people who have already had heart attacks, taught some cognitive coping strategies/things to avoid:
catastrophizing, personalizing, all-or-none thinking, overgeneralizing, mental filtering
Found a significant difference in the reoccurence of heart attacks |
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