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Stress and Coping
Vocabulary for Theme 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |