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Stress and Coping

Vocabulary for Theme 8

TermDefinition
Stress A person's reaction to his or her inability to cope with a certain tense event or situation.
Stressor A stress producing event or situation.
Stress Reaction The body's response to a stressor.
Distress Stress that stems from acute anxiety or pressure.
Eustress Positive stress, which results from motivating strivings and challenges.
Conflict Situation When a person must choose between two or more options that tend to result from opposing motives.
Anxiety A vague, generalized apprehension or feeling of danger.
Anger The irate reaction likely to result from frustration.
Fear The usual reaction when a stressor involves real or imagined danger.
Social Support Information that leads someone to believe that he or she is cared for, loved, respected, and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation.
Cognitive Appraisal The interpretation of an event that helps determine its stress impact.
Denial A coping mechanism in which a person decides that the event is not really a stressor.
Intellectualization A coping mechanism in which the person analyzes a situation from an emotionally detached viewpoint.
Progressive Relaxation Lying down comfortably and tensing and releasing the tension in each major muscle group in turn.
Meditation A focusing of attention with the goal of clearing one's mind and producing an "inner peace".
Biofeedback The process of learning to control bodily states by monitoring the states to be controlled.
Autonomy Ability to take care of oneself and makes one's own decisions.
Developmental Friendships Friends force one another to reexamine their basic assumptions and perhaps adopt new ideas and beliefs.
Resynthesis Combining old ideas with new ones and reorganizing feelings in order to renew one's identity.
Career A vocation in which a person works at least a few years.
Comparable Worth The concept that women and men should receive equal compensation for jobs caling for comparable skill and responsibility.
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