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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:42:21 CDT
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- From: Chris Cameron <CCAMERON@UKANVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: References on Stress-Moderating Variables?
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:51:35 EDT from <054340@UOTTAWA>
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- On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:51:35 EDT Matthew Simpson said:
- >I prefer to monitor something that is more tangible and easily monitored
- >from moment to moment, like heart rate, skin conductance level,
- >heart rate, finger skin temperature. To me these are much more useful
- >while monitoring a person's reaction to various stimuli.
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- These seem more like physical components of stress than moderators. Also
- they could be physical components of a number of other human activities.
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- >I see them
- >as being much more meaningfully related to what is typically called
- >stress. Also, these are things that people can learn to regulate.
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- What is the definition of stress you are using? What good does it
- do to regulate the things you mentioned, and what does regulation of these
- things do to actually change the "event" leading to stress? What is your
- outcome variable in this scenario?
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- >Whereas, the personality traits or states mentioned above are only
- >obtained by complex analysis of answers to questionnaires, and over
- >all, much more difficult for the client to monitor and regulate on
- >a moment to moment basis.
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- I am trying to imagine walking around monitoring my finger skin temperature -
- would make concentrating on other things pretty difficult :-)! Of course,
- walking around monitoring personality wouldn't be a easy either!
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- Chris at KU
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