Stress
A variety of unpleasant feeling states.
What is stress?
A situation or event that causes us to be stressed.
What is a stressor?
The decreased effectiveness of the immune system.
What is immunosuppression?
Combines relaxation with transcendental meditation.
What is the relaxation response technique?
Three elements make up happiness.
What is the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life?
Frustrated, angry, conflicted, overwhelmed, or fatigued.
What are results of stress?
The minor irritations and annoyances that are part of our everyday lives (rush hour traffic, lost keys, obnoxious coworkers, arguments with friends or family)
What are daily hassles?
Physical disorders or diseases whose symptoms are brought about or worsened by stress and emotional factors.
What is psychophysiological disorders?
our beliefs about our personal capacity to exert influence over and shape outcomes, and has major implications for our health and happiness
What is perceived control?
The inner peace and joy that come from deep satisfaction with one’s surroundings, relationships with others, accomplishments, and oneself.
What is happiness?
Two types of appraisals.
What are primary and secondary appraisals?
One of the greatest risk factors leading to job burnout.
What is job strain?
The field that studies how psychological factors such as stress influence the immune system and immune functioning.
What is Psychoneuroimmunology?
Four components of the relaxation response technique.
What is...
Two key factors correlated with happiness.
What is family and other social relationships?
A good kind of stress associated with positive feelings, optimal health, and performance.
What is eustress?
Hypothesis that life events requiring significant changes in a person’s normal life routines are stressful, whether these events are desirable or undesirable. Includes a chart of 43 life events.
What is the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)?
individuals who are intensively driven workaholics who are preoccupied with deadlines and always seem to be in a rush.
What are Type-A individuals?
Advice, guidance, encouragement, acceptance, emotional comfort, and tangible assistance from friends, family, and spouses.
What is social supports?
The science of happiness; it is an area of study that seeks to identify and promote those qualities that lead to greater fulfillment in our lives.
What is positive psychology?
Occurs when a person experiences very strong emotions—especially those associated with a perceived threat.
What is Flight-or-Fight response?
Individuals who are exposed to stressors of extreme magnitude experience what type of disorder?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Individuals who are more relaxed and laid-back.
What are Type-B individuals?
Higher levels of perceived control at one point in time were later associated with..
What is lower emotional and physical reactivity to interpersonal stressors?
The general tendency to look on the bright side of things—is also a significant predictor of positive health outcomes.
What is optimism?