MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS
STRESS AND HEALTH
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low blood pressure
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weakened immune responses
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problem-focused coping
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low blood sugar levels
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Detailed explanation-1: -When you perceive you have control, it can improve your overall well-being. And, when you lack perceived control, depression and learned helplessness can develop.
Detailed explanation-2: -A perceived lack of control provokes an outpouring of hormones that put people’s health at risk. Being unable to avoid repeated aversive events can lead to learned helplessness.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why does perceived loss of control predict health problems? Because losing control provokes an outpouring of stress hormones. External locus of control: the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.
Detailed explanation-4: -Perceived control refers to an individual’s belief about his or her own capability of exert-ing influence on internal states and behaviors, as well as one’s external environment (Langer, 1977; Lefcourt, 1966; Pearlin & Schooler, 1978; Wallston, Wallston, Smith, & Dobbins, 1987).