: Although not a new concept, stress has gained widespread attention in recent years. Social change, anomie, traditional anchors and meaning are fashionable to blame for this attention. The “fight or flight” response was described by Cannon in the 1930’s as a way organisms react when threats are perceived. Lazarus and Folkman elaborated on these issues by arguing that the way events are perceived may vary from individual to individual and should have either negative of positive values assigned to
