What are moderation models?

What will be an ideal response?


Moderation models assume that personality influences the strength or direction of the relationship between stress and health. Personality is an intervening variable between stress and health and can serve as an intensifier of stress or a buffer that reduces the impact of stressors. Thus, when a person encounters a potentially stressful situation, that individual's personality influences how he or she will appraise and then cope with the event. This in turn will affect that person's physiological, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive responses, which will then increase or decrease susceptibility to illness.

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A. They carry basic assumptions that have been verified through scientific research. B. They have helped make personality psychology an objective, scientific venture. C. They suggest that people are incapable of moving toward higher levels of functioning. D. They have led to the growth of a significant form of therapy for psychological difficulties.

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A therapist from the __________ perspective may tell a client that her depression is not abnormal, but rather stems from pressures placed on her to be a model employee, mother, and wife.

A. sociocultural B. social learning C. environmental D. behavioral

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