Stress, Health & Positive Psych

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Across
  1. 2. Study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes affect immunity.
  2. 3. Self-perceived happiness or life satisfaction.
  3. 6. Positive, motivating stress perceived as a challenge.
  4. 7. Feeling worse off compared to others.
  5. 8. Judging things relative to a neutral level set by prior experience.
  6. 10. Scientific study of human flourishing and well-being.
  7. 14. Perception that outside forces determine our fate.
  8. 15. Releasing aggressive energy to relieve aggressive urges.
  9. 18. Field studying how psychological factors impact health and wellness.
  10. 19. Significant childhood traumas (abbr.).
  11. 20. First stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome.
  12. 21. Term for easygoing, relaxed people.
  13. 22. Stress response involving nurturing and seeking social support.
  14. 24. Perception that we control our own destiny.
  15. 25. Six virtues studied in positive psychology (wisdom, courage, etc.).
Down
  1. 1. Second stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome.
  2. 4. Stress hormone released by the endocrine system; slower but longer lasting.
  3. 5. Tendency to feel emotions corresponding to our actions.
  4. 9. Coping by changing the stressor or interaction with it.
  5. 11. Coping by avoiding stressors and managing emotional needs.
  6. 12. Three-stage model of the body's stress response that includes alarm, resistance and exhaustion.
  7. 13. Negative, debilitating stress.
  8. 16. The process of perceiving and responding to threatening events.
  9. 17. Term for competitive, impatient, anger-prone people who are more prone to coronary heart disease.
  10. 23. Final stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome.