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Coping patterns in shock anticipation and in everyday stress
Author(s) -
NIEMELÄ PIRKKO
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1974.tb00587.x
Subject(s) - anticipation (artificial intelligence) , denial , psychology , coping (psychology) , coping behavior , developmental psychology , shock (circulatory) , skin conductance , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , artificial intelligence , computer science , biomedical engineering
.— GSR patterns were studied in 30 subjects anticipating and receiving electric shocks with high but not definitive probability. Although the majority of subjects showed anticipatory responses, six subjects displayed low or no response during anticipation but very high responses to shocks. As these subjects also reported that during anticipation they tended to deny the possibility of receiving a shock, their response pattern was interpreted as indicating denial of threat, and consequently, little preparation for stress. Self reports about behavior in everyday stress revealed a similar kind of behavior.