1. Stress, love, Type A

2. Stress 2 Social readjustment rating scale (SRRS)
Life Changing Units (LCUs)- marriage, change job, etc…
The more LCUs you have the higher your score is on the SRRS.
Those who score higher are more likely to have stress related disease.

3. Seyle’s General Adaptation Syndrome 3
Describes our response to a stressful event.
Three stages
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion

4. GAS Hans Selye 4 Alarm Resistance Fight or flight defense
Activation of nervous system
Parasympathetic/ sympathetic
Resistance
Person finds means to cope with stressor
Exhaustion
Exposure to stress continues
Person can reach breaking point

5. Fight or flight 5 Designed to prepare one for self defense
Needed for survival
Hormones work to prepare the body for response
If stress persists over a long time, body’s resources can be used up
One becomes physically & mentally exhausted
Can become sick from stress
Often leads to panic/ anxiety attacks

6. Love 6 Intimacy Passion Commitment Infatuation Liking Romantic Fatuous
Affection, sharing, support, and communication in a relationship
Passion
High levels of physical arousal in relationship, sexual
Commitment
Decision to love and stay with another person
Infatuation
Passion without commitment or intimacy
Liking
Intimacy without passion or commitment
Romantic
Intimacy plus passion
Fatuous
Passion with commitment, but lacking intimacy

7. Sternberg’s 7 look to the center of the triangle
Companionate love
Intimacy and commitment without passion
Empty love
Commitment without intimacy or passion
Consummate love
Passion, intimacy and commitment

8. Predictors of happiness 8
High self esteem
Outgoing
Close relationships
Work that engages
Religious faith
Sleeping well
exercise

9. What is happiness 9 Adaptation level principle Relative depravation
We adapt to levels of a stimulus and need something even better to make us happy
Relative depravation
Sense that we are worse off than others with whom we compare ourselves

10. conflict
It’s all about choices…

11. When Motives Conflict 11 approach-approach conflict
avoidance-avoidance conflict
approach-avoidance conflict
Multiple approach-avoidance conflicts

12. conflict Approach – approach Avoidance – avoidance
Choice between two good things
Admitted to two good colleges
Financial aid equitable
Both have your program
How do you choose?
The other always remains a What if
Avoidance – avoidance
Two negative things
Math homework
Science homework
Both equally difficult
Both will take time
You don’t want to do either
Try to avoid doing either one – look for other things to do

13. conflict Approach – avoidance Multiple approach – avoidance
One positive thing
One negative thing
Both need to be done
One tends to want to do the positive thing
However – the other thing needs to be done
Put off what you want to avoid
Multiple approach – avoidance
Many reasons why
Positive things or negative things
Again… make decisions

14. Are you…? Type A Type B Are you competitive? Are you a perfectionist?
Always having something to do?
Tough time relaxing?
Can’t just sit still
Driven personality
Can lead to health problems
Type B
More relaxed approach to life

15. Types of Personalities
Type A
Type B
Feel time pressure.
Easily angered.
Competitive and ambitious.
Work hard and play hard.
More prone to heart disease than rest of population.
Relaxed and easygoing.
But some people fit in neither type.