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Module 9
Module 9
Frustration. Occurs when goal achievement is blocked: a conflict is created when incompatible
response tendencies are aroused.
When a conflict stem from rival motivations, it called motivational conflict. When a conflict is
restricted solely to competing habits under one and the same drive it is called habit conflict or
habit competition.
Source of Frustration
Types of Conflicts
Responses to Frustration
1. High frustration tolerance
2. Ego-involvement
3. Feelings of enferiority
Module 9.1
Theories of Stress
1. The Engineering Model. This concept is derived from Hook’s Law of elasticity in
physics. It is locates in the stimulus characteristics of the environment.
2. Hans Selye (GAS) General Adaption Syndrome. The common characteristics of
syndrome is being sick. He enumerated three stages; 1) alarm reaction 2)stage of
resistance 3) stage of exhaustion.
3. Brady. Crises Decomposition Theory
First – confusion, upset and panic reaction.
Second – attempt resolution mobilizes the body of overcome exhaustion.
Third – decompensation leads to withdrawal, depression, guilt and physical illness.
1. Psychosocial
2. Bio-ecological
3. Personality
Stress Therapies
Richard Lazarus, Transactional Model (1981-1993). The effect of the interaction between
the person and the environment. He devised a scale to measure stress in daily life. The more
flexible a person is, the lesser the stress.
Suzzane Ouellete, the Coping styles (1987). The degree to which participants felt that they
could control or influence life events, involvement in or commitment to life activities. The
three C’s control, commitment, and challenge. She called a processing these as the
“hardiness personality type”.
Module 9.2
a. Smoking – increases risk for heart ailment, lung cancer, pulmonary or respiratory
infections and tumors.
b. Substance abuse – continued use of drugs and alcohol can damage in every organ in our
body.
c. Lack of exercise – people who are less physically fit tend to become ill when stress.
d. Poor diet – too much carbohydrates and improper nutrition can lower cardiovascular
fitness to people of all ages.
a. Water
b. Carbohydrates
c. Protein
d. Fats
- Saturated Fat
- Polyunsaturated Fat (polyunsaturated fatty acid)
- Monounsaturated Fat
Vitamins and Minerals
a. Vitamin A
b. Vitamin B1
c. Vitamin B2
d. Vitamin B3
e. Vitamin B6
f. Vitamin B12
g. Vitamin C
h. Vitamin D
i. Vitamin E
j. Folic Acid
k. Copper Iron
l. Potassium
m. Zinc