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FINALS - STRESS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| those external events that make adaptive demands on a person | Stressful events |
| Stressors or sources of stress: | *Physical stressors *Psychological stressors |
| conditions such as crowding, isolation, presence of pollutants or toxic elements found in the environment or in the physical body | Physical stressors |
| result from “one’s mental and emotional reactivity to one’s own inner cognitions and emotions to outside factors such as persons, places and events.” | Psychological stressors |
| Mediators in the Stress Response: Personal and Social Resources | Personality Cognitive Appraisals Social support Confession Dispositional optimism Social comparison and Affiliation |
| *mastery or personal competence *internal versus external locus of control beliefs | Control |
| presence of self-esteem and absence of self-denigration | Self-Concept |
| Type A Pattern | *high job involvement *time urgency *hostility |
| Type B | extreme competitiveness achievement striving |
| a constellation of psychological characteristics, containing expressions of commitment, control, and challenge | Hardiness |
| the ability to believe in the truth, importance, and interest value of who one is and what one is doing. It is also the involvement in many situations of life. | Commitment |
| the tendency to believe and act as if one can influence the course of events. | Control |
| based on the belief that change, rather than stability, is the normative mode of life | Challenge |
| perception of stress Stress resides neither in the individual nor the situation alone but in how a person defines a particular event. | Cognitive Appraisals |
| consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. | Social support |
| nature, intensity, and number of stressors; stressor’s predictability and controllability | The stressor |
| disclosing traumatic experiences through speech or writing | Confession |
| positive attitude | Dispositional optimism |
| arises out of one’s need to evaluate the nature of the situation, the resources, and emotional reactions | Social comparison and Affiliation |
| a common psychological problems characterized by feeling of hopelessness, worthlessness, and sadness in response to real or imagined loss, failure, or misfortune. | Depression |
| occurs when a person who has been experiencing a high level of stress hasn’t been able to cope with it, where a person dreads going to work because of unhappiness and frustration day after day. | Burn-out |
| Ways how to cope up with stress: |
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