The textbook describes four models of the impact of personality on health. Compare and contrast two of these models
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The student has four models to draw from. They are:
- Health behavior models,, in which individuals high in awareness or internal locus of control adopt a healthier lifestyle.
- Transactional stress moderation models in which individual traits affect health. Individuals low in sensation seeking or Neuroticism will behave in a healthier manner and take fewer risks with their health.
- Constitutional predisposition models, in which underlying genetic factors influence both personality and disease. Biological or genetic factors may what cause both psychological and physical disorders.
- Interactional stress moderation models suggest that personality characteristics modify physiological responses by reducing or increasing them. For example there is evidence that optimism increases immune system effectiveness.
Psychology
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