CH 6 - Life-Situation Interventions: Intrapersonal
Sympathomimetics
What is "food" substances that produce a stress-like response.
Aggressive
What is acting in a way to get what one is entitled to, one’s rights, but at the expense of someone else’s rights.
Cognitive Restructuring
What is a method of coping with anxiety that involves thinking about an anxiety-provoking event as less threatening.
Autogenic Training
What is a relaxation technique that involves imagining one’s limbs to be heavy, warm, and tingling.
Work-Setting Context
What is according to the Occupational Stress Evaluation Grid, stressors such as time, speed, creativity, autonomy, supervision, coworkers, ergonomics, and participation in decision-making.
Colas, coffee, tea or chocolate
What are examples of Sympathomimetics agents
Emotional Intelligence
What is perceiving feelings, using them appropriately, and managing emotions.
Resiliency
What is the ability to identify and make use of strengths and assets to respond to challenges, thereby growing as an individual.
Difficulty sitting comfortably, trembling hands or holding yourself too tightly
What is one of the signs and symptoms of tension in the body.
Role Overload
What is when job demands are so great that a worker feels an inability to cope.
Osteoporosis
What is a condition in which bones become weak and brittle and the sufferer is at an increased risk for fractures.
Negatively
What is modern advances in technology have ____________ impacted our ability to become emotionally intelligent.
Internal Locus of Control
What is the perception that one has control over events that affect one’s life.
Tight Clothing or Jewelry
What is important to loosen or remove before you start progressive relaxation.
Motivational Factors
What is variables associated with job satisfaction such as working on stimulating tasks, being recognized for work well done, and positive relationships with work colleagues.
Social support
What is the presence of significant others with whom one can discuss stressors
Credibility
What is an important feature of a good message in the context of the communication process.
Impatience/Irritability and Achievement Striving
What is researchers have identified two components of Type A behavior that appear to operate in opposing directions.
Parkinson’s Disease
What is Autogenics has been used to help people manage the symptoms.
Burnout
What is an adverse stress reaction to work with psychological, psychophysiological, and behavioral components.
White Noise
What is noise that helps you relax and also drowns out other sounds that may interfere with relaxation
Assertive behavior
What is expressing yourself and satisfying your own needs, feeling good about this, and not hurting others in the process.
Hardiness
What is a state of mind and body that includes three factors: commitment, control, and challenge.
Chronic Headaches
What is progressive relaxation has been shown to effectively treat.
American Workers
What is take fewer vacation days than do workers in other developed countries.