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20 Cards in this Set
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Stress |
The unconscious preparation to flight or flee a person experiences when faced with any demand. |
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Stressor |
The person or event that triggers the stress response |
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Distress or Strain |
The adverse psychological, physical, behavioral, and organizational consequences that may arise because of stressful events |
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Homeostasis |
a steady state of bodily functioning and equilibrium |
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ego-ideal |
the embodiment of a person’s perfect self |
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Self-image |
how a person sees himself or herself, positively and negatively |
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Workaholism |
an imbalanced preoccupation with work at the expense of home and personal life satisfaction |
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Participation Problems |
a cost associated with absenteeism, tardiness, strikes, work stoppages, and turnover |
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Performance decrements |
a cost resulting form poor quality or low quantity of production, grievances, and unscheduled machine downtime and repair. |
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Compensation award |
An organizational cost resulting from court awards for job distress |
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Type A behavior pattern |
A complex of personality and behavioral characteristics, including competitiveness, time urgency, social status insecurity, aggression, hostility, and a quest for achievements |
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Personality hardiness |
A personality resistant to distress and characterized by commitment, control, and challenge |
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Transformational coping |
a way of managing stressful events by changing them into less subjectively stressful events |
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Self-reliance |
a healthy, secure, interdependent pattern of behavior related to how people form and maintain supportive attachments with others |
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Counterdependence |
An unhealthy, insecure pattern of behavior that leads to separation in relationships with other people |
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Overdependence |
An unhealthy, insecure pattern of behavior that leads to preoccupied attempts to achieve security through relationships |
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Preventive stress management |
an organizational philosophy holding that people and organizations should take joint responsibility for promoting health and preventing distress and strain |
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Primary prevention |
the stage in preventive stress management designed to reduce, modify, or eliminate the demand or stressor causing stress |
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Secondary Prevention |
the stage in preventive stress management designed to alter or modify the individual’s or the organization’s response to a demand or stressor |
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Tertiary Prevention |
the stage in preventive stress management designed to heal individual or organizational symptoms of distress and strain |
