In today’s society, stress has an impact on how individual deal with everyday life. Every person, like myself, has their own personality, temperament, attitudes, vulnerabilities, behaviors, and values. “Your, personality, temperament, and behaviors impact how you perceive the world (appraise situations), how you react to the presences of threats or demands, and how you respond to and cope with stressful situation (Quick, Wright, Adkins, Nelson, & Quick, 2013, p.52).” It is these characteristics that indicate and influence how one deals with stress. These can have both positive and negative consequences in everyday life. The long-term effects of these consequences are different for each individual. There can be a negative or positive …show more content…
“Personality not only affects the individual’s stress appraisal and stress-coping mechanisms, but is also crucial in regard to the selection and shaping of stressful situations (Vollrath, 2001). (Ebstrup et al., 2011, p.407)” There are people with personalities that stress over everything and then there are people who do not stress much.
The complexities of my personality allow me to deal with every day stress in many different ways. I am observant, loyal, conscientious, dependable, optimistic, and hardworking. These are all good personality traits that allow me to deal with the stress. There are however many personality traits that cause me to not deal with stress well and even bring more stress to my life such as vulnerability to criticism, Too selfless, neuroticism, indecisive, and overcritical. Each one of these personality traits can cause me to perceive stress differently in different …show more content…
Smoking and doing drugs has never been something I have turned to in order to alleviate or deal with stress. The consequences of such unhealthy habits would cause me to have increased stress in my life. I do drink alcohol but I try not to do this when I am stressed out because of the exhaustion and lack of sleep it causes. “Behavioral distress contributes to the burden of suffering for the individual who abuses substance (Quick et al. 2013, p.61).” Thankfully, I have not had to deal with substance abuse. However, the lack of sleep and exhaustion causes me to think that situations are more stressful then they are. Another behavior that attributes to this exhaustion is my excessive television viewing. Watching too much TV keeps me inactive and it also had an influence, whether I think it or not, on the way I view my life. The correct behaviors can be an alleviator of the stress response in an individual’s