1. EQ:What personal factors influence stress?

2. Bell ringer  Describe your personality in 5 words (adjectives)

3. Take personality type test  Write 1-3 on the line next to each question  Add up numbers for a raw total

4. Results  20-34: low type A behavior  35-44: Medium Type A behavior  45-60: high type A behavior  What characterizes Type A or type B?

5. Personality Type Descriptions Type AType B Competitiveness Impatience Ambition Hostility Drive Patient Relaxed Easygoing Little hurry or hostility

6. Findings  Type B- half as likely to develop heart disease  Constant high alert (type A) can weaken immune system  What can you do to be more type B?

7. Take optimist vs pessimist quiz

8. Scoring instructions  For items 3, 7, and 9: subtract each score from 4  Add corrected scores for items 3, 7, and 9  Add scores for 1, 4, and 10  Add the 2 scores from step 2 and 3

9. Score meaning  Lower scores indicate more pessimism, higher scores more optimism  Average score is 14  10-19 is average range

10.  Pessimistic explanatory style: explain negative events as being caused by internal factors that are stable and global  Optimistic explanatory style: explain neg. events as due to external factors that are changeable and isolated

11. Findings  Optimists are healthier and live longer

12. Gender and culture reading and questions  How does moving to a new culture induce stress?