Very act of providing help may lessen regard for the recipient. Help is most grudgingly given when people are seen as responsible for both the cause and solution of their problems and least grudgingly given when they are seen as responsible for neither. B. Control and health . It has been argued that the desire to make decisions and affect outcomes, that is, to exercise control, is a basic feature of human behavior. There has been much research on the relationship between loss of control and the onset of poor health.
Personality is related to feelings of control.
Type A personality - consists of such predispositions as competitive achievement striving and sense of time urging and hostility. They want to exert control over environmental demands. They have a coronary-prone behavior, because they are always involved in a struggle for control, whereas type Bs are relatively free of such concerns. Life change . Investigators have considered how control mediates the effects of life changes on health.