Environmental stressors and stress
What is the most common symptom of stress?
Irritability or anger
This academic event has a stress rating of 90 and happens at the end of the semester?
Finals
These are regularly occurring conditions and experiences that can threaten or harm our well-being.
Daily Hassles
What is stress management?
Ways to reduce/ control stress
What are environmental stressors?
External forces that negatively impact the ecosystem.
With a stress rating of 84, this common college problem involves money troubles.
Financial difficulties
Stress is the most common reason that college students seek help from college counseling centers. True/False
True
What can too much stress eventually cause?
Health problems
Give an example of an environmental stressor.
Natural disasters, Terrorism, Noise, Temperature, Air Pollution, Crowding, Invasion of personal space.
This event, rated 83 on the stress scale, involves being caught breaking academic integrity rules.
Caught cheating on a test.
What is the highest physical symptom of stress?
What is a technique that slows breathing to calm the body?
What is stress?
An event that exerts physical or psychological force or pressure on a person.
With a stress rating of 97, this tragic event involves losing someone close outside your immediate family.
Death of close friend
This daily hassle often happens during rush hour and involves being stuck behind the wheel for longer than expected?
Traffic
What hormone in the body is commonly linked to stress?
Cortisol
Give a source of stress?
Daily hassles, Life changes, Acculturation, Pain and Discomfort, and Conflict.
Tied for the highest stress rating of 100, this life altering diagnosis appears near the top of the list.
Finding out you are HIV-positive
This Daily Hassle involves conflict or misunderstandings with friends family or coworkers
Interpersonal conflict
What is the body's immediate reaction to danger called?
Fight or flight