A psychological response to demands that possess certain stakes for the person and that tax or exceed the person’s capacity or resources.
What is Stress
100
A type of Work hinderance stressor in which conflicting expectations that other people may have of us
What is Role Conflict
100
Questions such as “what should I do?” or “what can I do?"
What is secondary appraisal
100
The help that people receive when they’re confronted with stressful demands
What is social support
100
The theory explaining how stressors are perceived and appraised, as well as how people respond to those perceptions and appraisals.
What is Transactional theory of stress
200
The behaviors and thoughts that people use to manage both the stressful demands they face and the emotions associated with those stressful demands.
What is coping
200
A type of Work Challenge Stressor referring to the nature of the obligations that a person has toward others.
What is Work Responsablility
200
The set of physical activities that are used to deal with a stressful situation
What is Behavioral Coping
200
The opportunity to take time off from work to engage in alternative activity
What is sabbatical
200
The “type” of people who have a strong sense of time urgency and tend to impatient, hard-driving, competitive, controlling, aggressive, and even hostile.
What is Type A
300
The emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion that results from having to cope with stressful demands on an ongoing basis.
What is burnout
300
A non-work hindrance stressor referring to conditions that create uncertainties with regard to the loss of livelihood, savings, or the ability to pay expenses.
What is financial uncertainty
300
Behaviors and cognitions intended to manage the stressful situation itself.
What is Problem-focused Coping
300
The type of support referring to the help people receive in addressing the emotional distress that accompanies stressful demands
What is emotional support
300
Examples of positive life events which could be sources of non-work challenge stressors
What are marriage, the addition of a new family member, graduating from school, other things
400
The negative consequences that occur when demands tax or exceed a person’s capacity or resources
What is strain
400
A type of work challenge stressor referring to a strong sense that the amount of time you have to do a task is just not quite enough
What is time pressure
400
The thoughts that are involved in trying to deal with a stressful situation
What is Cognitive Coping
400
When tow people share the work of a single job
What is Job Sharing
400
Job demands that tend not to be appraised as stressful
What is benign job demands
500
The way that the typical or average person reacts to different sorts of stressors
What is type A behavior pattern
500
A type of Work Hinderance stressor in which the number of demanding roles a person holds is so high that the person simply cannot perform some or all of the roles effectively.
What is role overload
500
The various ways in which people manage their own emotional reactions to stressful demands
What is Emotion-focused Coping
500
The help people receive that can be used to address the stressful demand directly.
What is instrumental support
500
The demands that cause people to experience stress.