Key Vocabulary
This vocab term can be thought of as: "______ _________ refers to one's beliefs about the enhancing or debilitating nature of stress."
What is "stress mindset?"
This long-term strategy consists of maintaining a healthy diet day-to-day (to the best of your ability).
What is "having a healthy diet?"
This short-term strategy focuses on your breath, including various breathing exercises to help regulate your nervous system and calm your body through intentional breathing.
What is "focus on breathing?"
The Huebschmann & Sheets article shared a statistic from the ACHA 2018: "In a recent national survey of college students, 45.1% of students reported more than _________ stress."
What is "more than average?"
This perspective to stress management can be defined as "the extent to which one believes the effects of stress has negative effects rather than enhancing."
What is "stress-is-debilitating" mindset?
This long-term strategy consists of dedicating time for you to specifically do the hobbies you enjoy.
What is "making time for leisure activities?"
This short-term strategy consists of partaking in exercise through steps. This can be anything from hiking to taking 5 minutes to walk around in the Mashburn Hallways.
What is "take a walk?"
According to our reading, "at high levels of adversity, adolescents with a ________________ mindset reported significantly higher levels of distress" (Huebschamann & Sheets, 2020).
What is "stress-is-debilitating" mindset?
This term is defined as "a construct defined as having a psychological edge that helps one better cope with the demands and remain determined, focused, confident, and in control under pressure" (Jones et al., 2002).
What is "mental toughness?"
This long-term strategy emphasizes maintaining positive self-talk patterns, meaning limiting harsh self-criticism, self-doubt, and catastrophic predictions and increasing positive affirmations and self-love.
What is "Positive Self-Talk Habits?"
This short-term strategy consists of relaxing all of the muscles in your body group by group. You start by taking deep breaths, then you tighten and immediately relax each muscle group starting with your forehead to toes (or vice versa). This helps release tension and tightness in your body.
What is "progressive muscle relaxation?"
This mindset has a positive correlation with workplace performance and satisfaction with life (specifically because it leads to more effective coping when anticipating a high workload, and in turn a better work performance and vigor throughout the day).
What is "stress-is-enhancing" mindset?
What mindset regarding your perspective about stress describes: "the extent to which one believes the effects of stress are enhancing rather than debilitating"?
What is "stress-is-enhancing" mindset
This long-term strategy focuses on taking time to recognize all of the things you're glad either have or haven't happened to you for something you haven't necessarily deserved or earned.
What is "express gratitude?"
This short-term strategy consists of reevaluating and editing your "to-do" list and making it realistic (only putting things on the list you can reasonably achieve in a day).
What is "reassess your to-do list?"
In the Huebschmann & Sheets article, the statistic by Beiter et al., (2015) was shared: "Among undergraduate students at an American University, 15% of students reported _______ or _______ ___________ levels of anxiety."
What is "severe or extremely severe?"
What's the name of the professor for this course?
Who is "Sarah Bryant?"
This long-term strategy consists of cultivating, having, and maintaining supportive people in your life either though an organization, a support group, therapy, your friend group, etc.
What is "obtain social support?"
This short-term strategy consists of you imagining your self in your "happy place" and can be done by listening to a recording (Youtube video) or listening to someone walk you through this peaceful scene in person. To do it, you close your eyes for a minute and walk yourself though a peaceful scene with emphasis on the sensory experiences in this imaginary place.
What is "Guided Imagery?"
The Huebschmann & Sheets article describes how: "in adolescents and emerging adults, ________ ___________ was shown to mitigate the relationship between perceived stress and depressive symptoms, such that with ______ _______ [same vocab term], fewer depressive symptoms were experienced at high levels of stress" (Gerber et al., 2013b).
What is "mental toughness?"