Personality Sixth edition Chapter 12 Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 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 Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 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 Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 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 Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved Introduction: Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences • Relations among personality, stress, adjustment, and health • Understanding individuals in a real-world social context Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 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 Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.1.1: Health Behaviors and Healthy Environments • People in unhealthy situations Conscientiousness Copyright â 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.1.2: The Sick Role • Behaviors of sick role • Factors of symptom perceptions Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.1.3: Disease-Caused Personality Changes • Somatopsychic effect • Personality differences in health Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.1.4: Diathesis–Stress • Overview • Bernard Lown’s insights Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.3: The Human Termites Objective: Appraise the study on intelligence research conducted on Lewis Terman's termites Lewis Terman Survival analysis Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.3.1: Conscientiousness • Characteristics conducive to longevity • Characteristics of conscientious people Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.3.2: Sociability • Overview • Termite scientists Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.3.3: Cheerfulness • Characteristics of cheerful Termites Characteristics of optimistic individuals Copyright â 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.3.4: Stressed Termites • Children of divorce • Outcomes of family stress Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.3.5: Mental Health • Predictors of premature mortality • Features of mental stability Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.4: Blaming the Victim Objective: Inspect the tendency of blaming the victim for diseases Tuberculosis Reasons for blaming the victim Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.5: The Self-Healing Personality Objective: Assess how constructively challenged personalities are generally healthier Mahatma Gandhi Inspiration of personality researchers studying health Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.5.1: Control, Commitment, and Challenge • Features of healthy executives under stress • Emphasis of subsequent research on personality Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.5.2: Trust and Devotion • Locus of control • Characteristics of trusting people Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.6: The Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Self-Healing Objective: Describe the Rogerian therapy approach to helping and treating patients Rogers’s work Rogerian therapy Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.6.1: Growth Orientation • Features of self-actualized people Broaden-and-build model Copyright â 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.6.2: Identity, Morality, and Purpose • People’s sense of dignity • Steps for enhanced mental and physical health Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved 12.6.3: Sense of Coherence • Overview • Self-healing personalities Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved Conclusion: Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences • Study of individuals in a real-world social context • Links between personality and health • Diathesis Copyright © 2015, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved ... 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:... Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences • Relations among personality, stress, adjustment, and health • Understanding individuals in a real-world social context Copyright © 2015, 2 012, 2009 Pearson... 12. 5: The Self-Healing Personality 12. 6: The Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Self-Healing Conclusion: Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences Copyright © 2015, 2 012, 2009 Pearson Education,