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Stress & Coping
Happiness
Well-Being
Leisure
Terminology
100
Positive stress often experienced from events such as marriage, the birth of a baby, starting a new job or graduating from school.
What is Eustress?
100
Emotionally positive, momentary, often sensory experiences.
What is Pleasures?
100
How well a person's life is going and the status of a person's physiological being.
What is Well-Being?
100
Paying attention to the positive aspects of, and emotions associated with leisure involvement.
What is Savoring Leisure?
100
People who pursue pleasure as life's primary goal
What is a Hedonist?
200
Physiological response resulting from perception or appraisal of threat.
What is Distress?
200
Name of the website where you took your "Happiness Survey".
What is authentic happiness.com?
200
The type of emotion that provides fulfillment, expression of personal capacities and has many significant benefits.
What is POSITIVE EMOTION?
200
The notion of an activity specifically "fit" for a person.
What is Authentic Leisure?
200
Effortful, goal-directed endeavors.
What is Intentional Activity?
300
Active strategies to address directly the problems that create a given distress.
What is Problem-Focused Coping?
300
The chemical released following an intense cardio-workout that helps us to feel good.
What is endorphin's?
300
The evolutionary response that prepares us to run from or fight immediate environmental threats.
What is Fight or Flight?
300
Conscious engagement in the entirety of an experience coupled with disengagement from daily life concerns.
What is "Mindful Leisure"?
300
Becoming accustomed to or adapting to experiences
What is Habituation?
400
Physiological and emotional recuperation from stress.
What is Relaxation?
400
When skill is perfectly matched with ability, it provides this euphoric state of happiness.
What is FLOW?
400
What is one of the best things you can do to "be well"?
What is Eat right and exercise?
400
The capacity to engage in leisure experiences that develop personal strengths, capacities, interests, and abilities in the service of something larger than oneself.
What is Virtuous Leisure?
400
Immersive experiences that result in personal growth.
What is Gratifications?
500
The process of diverting attention away from on issue and focusing attention on another.
What is Distraction?
500
The most prevalent determinant of happiness
What is Genetics?
500
What song by Tim McGraw talks about how we may live our lives differently if we knew we only had a short time to live.
What is Live Like You Were Dying?
500
Ranked the #1 leisure activity in the United States.
What is watching T.V.?
500
Participation in an activity based on anticipation of rewards that come from within the person.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?