Highly stressful type - approach-avoidance- a choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive and unattractive aspects (e.g. being offered a job promotion with much more pay but you"ll have to move to a new city you hate) Quite stressful * Life Changes are any noticeable alterations in one's living circumstances that require readjustment * Holmes and Rahe - Social Readjustment Rating Scale measures life change as a form of stress. ... * Social Support refers to various types of aid and succor provided by one's soc...

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Forsythe defines norms as "implicit standards that describe what behaviours should and should not be performed in a given context; consensual guidelines that prescribe the socially appropriate, or "normal", course of action" (D.R. ... If individuals are to retain membership without conforming to the group's accepted norms, they need to find a way to change the norms so that deviant behaviour becomes redefined as socially appropriate and reinforcable, or they must be permitted to formulate a role that permits deviance and reinforces other members" tolerance of that deviance. ... In social ...

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