lazarus and folkman

• Lazarus and folkman model


  • experience of stress is based on a transaction between an individual and their external environment
• primary appraisal

  • judgment of significance of the situation

  • irrelevant, stressful, benign-positive
  • harm, threat, challenge
• second appraisal

  • evaluates their ability to cope with the stressor

  • inadequate - will experience stress
  • adequate - will not experience stress.
• strengths

  • interaction between environment and individual
  • psychological determinacy of stress
• limitations

  • difficult to experiment on
  • primary and secondary are difficult to isolate
  • we can experience stress without having a thought about a situation or event