Stress?
A process where an individual perceives and responds to events that they appraise as overwhelming or threatening to their well-being.
What is Stress?
Events that persist over an extended period of time.
What are chronic stressors?
Physical disorders or diseases whose symptoms are brought about or worsened by stress and emotional factors.
What are Psychophysiological Disorders?
Managing emotions, seeking to change the way one feels about or perceives a problem.
What is emotion-focused coping?
The enduring state of mind consisting of joy, contentment, and other positive emotions, plus the sense that one’s life has meaning and value.
What is happiness?
The threatening/overwhelming events that trigger stress.
What are stressors?
In the 1960s, Holmes and Rahe developed a social readjustment rating scale (SRRS) to quantify the stress associated with certain ____ _______.
What are life changes?
Decreased effectiveness of the immune system.
What is immunosuppression?
Attempting to modify the problem or source of stress.
What is problem-focused coping?
The science of happiness and how to promote it.
What is positive psychology?
Judgement of the options available to cope with a stressor.
What is secondary appraisal?
Brief events that sometimes continue to be experienced as overwhelming well after the even has ended.
What are acute stressors?
White blood cells important in the immune response.
What are lymphocytes?
Our beliefs about our personal capacity to exert influence over outcomes.
What is perceived control?
Pleasurable engagement with the environment, such as happiness, joy, enthusiasm, alertness, and excitement.
What is positive affect?
Stress associated with positive feelings, optimal health, and performance.
What is Eustress?
A work situation with excessive workload and little control over decisions made.
What is job strain?
The tendency to experience negative emotions such as anger, anxiety, fear, and guilt.
What is negative affectivity?
The (learned) belief that we are unable to exert control and/or change a particular outcome.
What is learned helplessness?
The tendency to look on the bright side of things.
What is optimism?
Occurs when a person experiences strong emotions. Most commonly when perceiving a threat: flood of epinephrine and norepinephrine; rapid activation of the sympathetic nervous system and endocrine system.
What is fight-or-flight response?
A sense of emotional exhaustion and cynicism about one’s job.
What is job burnout?
A chronic disease in which the airways of the respiratory system become obstructed (due to inflammation of the airways), leading to trouble breathing.
What is asthma?
Bodily information (like heart rate) is shown in real time, providing feedback to help the person gain a level of voluntary control over these processes.
A particular experience that is so engaging and engrossing that it becomes worth doing for its own sake.
What is flow?