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Stress, Health, Coping Psychology 2012 – Fall 2003 Introduction: What Is Stress? Stress – a negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taxing or exceeding a person’s resources or ability to cope Whether or not we experience stress largely depends on: Our cognitive appraisal of an event and The resources that we have to deal with the event Health psychology – the branch of psychology that studies how psychological factors influence health, illness, medical treatment, and health-related behaviors Health psychologists are guided by the biopsychosocial model – states that health and illness are determined by the complex interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors The Biomedical Model The Biopsychosocial Model Introduction: What Is Stress? Sources of Stress Life is filled with potential stressors – events or situations that produce stress Life events and change To measure the amount of stress people experienced, early stress researchers Holmes and Rahe developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale Includes 43 life events that require some level of adaptation Each life event is assigned a numerical rating that estimates its relative impact in terms of life change units Holmes and Rahe found that people who had more than 150 life change units within a year had an increased rate of physical or psychological illness Introduction: What Is Stress? Life events and change Several problems with the life events approach have been identified The link between scores on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale and the development of physical and psychological problems is relatively weak In general, these scores are not very good predictors The Social Readjustment Rating Scale does not take into account a person’s subjective appraisal of an event, response to that event , or ability to cope with the event The life events approach assumes that change in itself, whether good or bad, produces stress The Social Readjustment Rating S