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PU5023: STRESS, PERSONALITY AND HEALTH (2014-2015)

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Course Overview

This course explores how stress and personality can affect our health by influencing how we view the world, how we react to situations and events (psychologically, physiologically and behaviourally) and our capacity to cope in difficult circumstances. Students will study the causes and consequences of stress as it arises in a range of contexts including during work and while dealing with the consequences of illness, and be guided to examine how stressors can be controlled and managed to optimise health.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session First Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
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Are there a limited number of places available?

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Course Description

Topics covered by the course include: - Theoretical models of stress - Measurement of stress - Models of coping and stress management. - Psychoneuroimmunology - Models and theories of personality - The role of personality in health and illness - Emotion in health - Individual differences in health, health behaviour, illness perceptions and health beliefs.

Contact Teaching Time

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

1x two hour written exam (60%) + continous assessment (40%)[2,500 word written assignment]

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