Sources of Stress
Positive Stress
Eustress
When a stressor involves real or imagined danger
a person decides the event is not really a stressor
Denial
combining old ideas with new ones and reorganizing feelings in order to renew one's identity
Resynthesis
A vocation in which a person works at least a few years.
Career
When a person must choose between two or more options that tend to result from opposing motives.
Conflict Situation
heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration increases. Muscles tense, hormones such as epinephrine are secreted.
Fight or Flight response
A person analyzes an event from an emotionally detached point of view.
Intellectualization
The concept that women and men should receive equal pay for jobs calling for comparable skill and responsibility.
Comparable Worth
The process of learning to control bodily states by monitoring the states to be controlled.
Biofeedback
You must choose between tow disagreeable/unattractive options or outcomes.
Avoidance-Avoidance
Information that leads someone to believe that he or she is cared for, loved and respected, as part of a network of communication and obligation.
Social Support
I turn to work or other substitute activities to take my mind off of things.
Mental Disengagement
The ability to take care of oneself and make one's own decisions.
Autonomy
The irate reaction likely to result from frustration
Anger
A stress producing event or situation
Stressor
Generalized apprehension or feeling of danger
Anxiety
lying down comfortably and tensing and releasing the tension in each major muscle group
Progressive Relaxation
friends that force one another to reexamine their basic assumptions and perhaps adopt new ideas and beliefs
developmental friendships
The bodies response to a stressor
Stress Reaction
According to the SRRS (Social Readjustment Rating Scale) which event in someone's life would cause the most stress or require them to make the most changes?
DAILY DOUBLE
Death of a Spouse
Strait forward, prone to agitation, chronic state of stress
Type A personality
The interpretation of an event that helps determine stress its stress impact
Cognitive Appraisal
The worker feels that he or she has enough available _____________, help supplies, and equipment to do the job well.
Resources
You must choose between multiple options, each of which has pleasurable and disagreeable aspects.
DAILY DOUBLE
Double or Multiple approach avoidance