Personality
Sixth edition
Chapter 12
Stress, Adjustment,
and Health Differences
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Modules
Introduction: Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences
12.1: Disease-Prone Personalities
12.2: Personality, Coronary-Proneness, and Other Disease
12.3: The Human Termites
12.4: Blaming the Victim
12.5: The Self-Healing Personality
12.6: The Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Self-Healing
Conclusion: Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences
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Learning Objectives (1 of 2)
12.1: Analyze whether personality can be a risk factor for disease
12.2: Evaluate the link between personality type and proneness to heart diseases
12.3: Appraise the study on intelligence research conducted on Lewis Terman's termites
12.4: Inspect the tendency of blaming the victim for diseases
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Learning Objectives (2 of 2)
12.5: Assess how constructively challenged personalities are generally healthier
12.6: Describe the Rogerian therapy approach to helping and treating patients
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Introduction: Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences
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Relations among personality, stress, adjustment, and health
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Understanding individuals in a real-world social context
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12.1: Disease-Prone Personalities
Objective: Analyze whether personality can be a risk factor for disease
Psychosomatic medicine
Concept of unconscious inner conflict and struggle leading to diseases
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12.1.1: Health Behaviors and Healthy Environments
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People in unhealthy situations
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Conscientiousness
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12.1.2: The Sick Role
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Behaviors of sick role
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Factors of symptom perceptions
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12.1.3: Disease-Caused Personality Changes
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Somatopsychic effect
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Personality differences in health
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12.1.4: Diathesis–Stress
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Overview
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Bernard Lown’s insights
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12.1.5: Personality Disorders
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People with borderline personality disorder
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Characteristics of personality disorders
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12.2: Personality, Coronary-Proneness, and Other Disease
Objective: Evaluate the link between personality type and proneness to heart diseases
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Psychosomatic medicine
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Concept of unconscious inner conflict and struggle leading to diseases
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12.2.1: Type A Behavior Pattern and Choleric Struggle
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Characteristics of Type As
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Heightened risks of coronary disease
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12.2.2: Giving Up
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Overview
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Key elements of a healthy personality
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12.2.3: Other Diseases
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Meta-analysis
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Effects of emotional states
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12.3: The Human Termites
Objective: Appraise the study on intelligence research conducted on Lewis Terman's termites
Lewis Terman
Survival analysis
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12.3.1: Conscientiousness
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Characteristics conducive to longevity
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Characteristics of conscientious people
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12.3.2: Sociability
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Overview
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Termite scientists
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12.3.3: Cheerfulness
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Characteristics of cheerful Termites
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Characteristics of optimistic individuals
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12.3.4: Stressed Termites
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Children of divorce
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Outcomes of family stress
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12.3.5: Mental Health
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Predictors of premature mortality
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Features of mental stability
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12.4: Blaming the Victim
Objective: Inspect the tendency of blaming the victim for diseases
Tuberculosis
Reasons for blaming the victim
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12.5: The Self-Healing Personality
Objective: Assess how constructively challenged personalities are generally healthier
Mahatma Gandhi
Inspiration of personality researchers studying health
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12.5.1: Control, Commitment, and Challenge
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Features of healthy executives under stress
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Emphasis of subsequent research on personality
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12.5.2: Trust and Devotion
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Locus of control
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Characteristics of trusting people
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