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Personality

Personality. Sixth edition. Chapter 12. Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences. 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

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Personality

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  1. Personality Sixth edition Chapter 12 Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Introduction: Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences • Relations among personality, stress, adjustment, and health • Understanding individuals in a real-world social context

  6. 12.1: Disease-Prone Personalities Psychosomatic medicine Concept of unconscious inner conflict and struggle leading to diseases Objective: Analyze whether personality can be a risk factor for disease

  7. 12.1.1: Health Behaviors and Healthy Environments • People in unhealthy situations • Conscientiousness

  8. 12.1.2: The Sick Role • Behaviors of sick role • Factors of symptom perceptions

  9. 12.1.3: Disease-Caused Personality Changes • Somatopsychic effect • Personality differences in health

  10. 12.1.4: Diathesis–Stress • Overview • Bernard Lown’s insights

  11. 12.1.5: Personality Disorders • People with borderline personality disorder • Characteristics of personality disorders

  12. 12.2: Personality, Coronary-Proneness, and Other Disease • Objective: Evaluate the link between personality type and proneness to heart diseases • Psychosomatic medicine • Concept of unconscious inner conflict and struggle leading to diseases

  13. 12.2.1: Type A Behavior Pattern and Choleric Struggle • Characteristics of Type As • Heightened risks of coronary disease

  14. 12.2.2: Giving Up • Overview • Key elements of a healthy personality

  15. 12.2.3: Other Diseases • Meta-analysis • Effects of emotional states

  16. 12.3: The Human Termites Lewis Terman Survival analysis Objective: Appraise the study on intelligence research conducted on Lewis Terman's termites

  17. 12.3.1: Conscientiousness • Characteristics conducive to longevity • Characteristics of conscientious people

  18. 12.3.2: Sociability • Overview • Termite scientists

  19. 12.3.3: Cheerfulness • Characteristics of cheerful Termites • Characteristics of optimistic individuals

  20. 12.3.4: Stressed Termites • Children of divorce • Outcomes of family stress

  21. 12.3.5: Mental Health • Predictors of premature mortality • Features of mental stability

  22. 12.4: Blaming the Victim Tuberculosis Reasons for blaming the victim Objective: Inspect the tendency of blaming the victim for diseases

  23. 12.5: The Self-Healing Personality Mahatma Gandhi Inspiration of personality researchers studying health Objective: Assess how constructively challenged personalities are generally healthier

  24. 12.5.1: Control, Commitment, and Challenge • Features of healthy executives under stress • Emphasis of subsequent research on personality

  25. 12.5.2: Trust and Devotion • Locus of control • Characteristics of trusting people

  26. 12.6: The Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Self-Healing Rogers’s work Rogerian therapy Objective: Describe the Rogerian therapy approach to helping and treating patients

  27. 12.6.1: Growth Orientation • Features of self-actualized people • Broaden-and-build model

  28. 12.6.2: Identity, Morality, and Purpose • People’s sense of dignity • Steps for enhanced mental and physical health

  29. 12.6.3: Sense of Coherence • Overview • Self-healing personalities

  30. Conclusion: Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences • Study of individuals in a real-world social context • Links between personality and health • Diathesis

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