HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 2: RUTGERS QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% RATED VERIFIED
What is the Social Readjustment Rating scale?
Scale used to measure stress. The higher amount of life changing events, the higher
the stress and the higher likelihood a patient would become ill. The scale suggests that
changes require people to adapt and a need to regain stability.
Daily Hassles
Minor annoying events which require some degree of adjustment. Uplifts help relieve
stress from daily hassles.
Is social support related to better health?
Yes, with social support you have lower rates of death, psychological symptoms, and
better diabetes control.
What is Tangible/Instrumental Support
Physical things you can do for people to help them. ( providing food, transportation ,etc.)
What is informational Support
Giving support by providing information.
What is emotional/esteem support
Support in which you comfort the person emotionally to make them feel better.
What is companionship Support
Having the support for others to have the availability to spend time with the person;
giving a feeling of membership in a group of people who share similar interests.
What is received social support?
Amount of support accessed by an individual, actions performed by others.
What is Perceived social support?
Amount of support appraised to be available to that person.
What is providing support?
, Giving support to others. Helps the giver feel good about themselves and leads to
decreased mortality risk and increased health outcomes. ( could also be because those
who can give have the means to give so are more well off.)
What happens if there is rejection/neglect in a social network?
Worse self-reported health.
What happens if you are dependent or have diminished self-respect in a social
network?
Feelings like you have to be reliant on other people. You feel demoralized.
What happens if you have conflict in a social network?
You have increases psychological and physiological stress and an increased chance of
infection.
What is the direct effects hypothesis?
Protection during stressful and non-stressful times. Social support protecting you
against stress and beyond.
What is The Buffering Hypothesis?
Protection against effects of stress. Anxiety and physiological arousal is lower during
stress with the presence of familiar others.
When is social support beneficial?
Social support is only beneficial when we experience stress. Social support can help
appraise the event as non-stressful. Social support can help calm down a friend after
stress response.
What are the potential mechanisms in the relation between social support and
health?
Cognitive appraisal, health behaviors, adherence and psycho-neuro-immunological
pathways.
Cognitive appraisal
someone in your social network could intervene at this level by helping you praise it as
non-stressful or help you interpret the event in a different way or what to do about it
Health behaviors
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% RATED VERIFIED
What is the Social Readjustment Rating scale?
Scale used to measure stress. The higher amount of life changing events, the higher
the stress and the higher likelihood a patient would become ill. The scale suggests that
changes require people to adapt and a need to regain stability.
Daily Hassles
Minor annoying events which require some degree of adjustment. Uplifts help relieve
stress from daily hassles.
Is social support related to better health?
Yes, with social support you have lower rates of death, psychological symptoms, and
better diabetes control.
What is Tangible/Instrumental Support
Physical things you can do for people to help them. ( providing food, transportation ,etc.)
What is informational Support
Giving support by providing information.
What is emotional/esteem support
Support in which you comfort the person emotionally to make them feel better.
What is companionship Support
Having the support for others to have the availability to spend time with the person;
giving a feeling of membership in a group of people who share similar interests.
What is received social support?
Amount of support accessed by an individual, actions performed by others.
What is Perceived social support?
Amount of support appraised to be available to that person.
What is providing support?
, Giving support to others. Helps the giver feel good about themselves and leads to
decreased mortality risk and increased health outcomes. ( could also be because those
who can give have the means to give so are more well off.)
What happens if there is rejection/neglect in a social network?
Worse self-reported health.
What happens if you are dependent or have diminished self-respect in a social
network?
Feelings like you have to be reliant on other people. You feel demoralized.
What happens if you have conflict in a social network?
You have increases psychological and physiological stress and an increased chance of
infection.
What is the direct effects hypothesis?
Protection during stressful and non-stressful times. Social support protecting you
against stress and beyond.
What is The Buffering Hypothesis?
Protection against effects of stress. Anxiety and physiological arousal is lower during
stress with the presence of familiar others.
When is social support beneficial?
Social support is only beneficial when we experience stress. Social support can help
appraise the event as non-stressful. Social support can help calm down a friend after
stress response.
What are the potential mechanisms in the relation between social support and
health?
Cognitive appraisal, health behaviors, adherence and psycho-neuro-immunological
pathways.
Cognitive appraisal
someone in your social network could intervene at this level by helping you praise it as
non-stressful or help you interpret the event in a different way or what to do about it
Health behaviors
