Question

Suppose two people experience the same stressful events, and as a result of the experience, one person develops an affective disorder while the second person shows no ill effects. the diathesis-stress model would most likely explain this by saying that the

Answer 1

The diathesis-stress model predicts that individuals develop mental disorders because they experience stress and they have a predisposition that made them more vulnerable to the condition. Thus, the model would say that the individual who developed an affective disorder was genetically predisposed in some way that made them less resilient to the stressor experienced and more likely to develop a disorder.