Stress risks + benefits

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A02 stress
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Psychologists biological stress therapies Khan - compared BZ vs placebo, BZ more effective Lockwood- BBs musicians in orchestra 27% more relaxed + performed better, easy + accessible, MAT
Psychologists psychological stress therapies Meichenbaum - SIT effective + transferable skills Sheehy+ Horan- 1st year law students 4 SIT sessions, lower anxiety, lower stress, 50% improve by grade MAT Suitable for chronic stressors
Negatives stress + immune system Negative - correlational- no cause + effect - confounding variables - medical illnesses, job, smoking, Segerstrom + Miller acute stress boost in order to be adaptive system eg fight/flight
Positives stress + immune system Segerstrom + Miller chronic suppress
Rosenman et al Shekelle 12000 men questionnaire + interview 7 years no difference CHD, Miller meta review hostility risk factor, more hardy less ill, women tend + befriend
Holmes + Rahe culturally specific events America, no objective assessment of readjustment-opinions
Rahe et al population validity American males, no cause + effect correlation, individual differences reaction to stress
Marmot evaluation only white collar jobs, confounding variables, correlation, questionnaires less truthful
Johannson et al evaluation confounding factors
De longis evaluation not all stressors considered, no cause + effect, no individual differences considered
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