Stress And Health

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Stress

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Is the term used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threating or challenging

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Distress

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The effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors. (There are two kinds of stressors: those that cause distress, which occurs when people experience unpleasant stressors, which results from positive events that still make demands on a person to adapt or change. Marriage, a job promotion, having a baby may be positive but all require a great deal of change in habits, lifestyle, thereby creating stress.

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Stressors

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Events that cause stress reaction. Events that can become stressors such as being stuck behind the 10 or less lane and dude who has 30 plus items or the after mass of a hurricane dealing with the rubble. Stressor can range from deadly serious (hurricanes, fires, crashes, combat) to merely (delays, rude people, losing one’s car keys)

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Eustress:

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The effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being.

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• Catastrophe

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: An unpredictable, large-scale event that event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as over-whelming feelings of threat.

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• Catastrophe

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Assessment that measures the amount of stress in a person’s life over a 1-year period resulting from major life events.

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College Undergradute Stress Scale (CUSS):

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Assessment that measures the amount of stress in a college student’s life over a 1-year period resulting from major life events.

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Hassled

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The daily annoyances of everyday life. Lazarus and Folkman explain it’s the little things in one’s life we experience frustrations, delays, irritations, minor disagreements and similar aggravations.

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Pressure

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The psychological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for a person’s behavior that come from an outside source

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Frustration

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The psychological experience produced by the blocking of a desired goal or fulfillment of a perceived need.

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Aggression

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The psychological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for a person’s behavior that come from an outside source

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Escape or Withdrawal

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Leaving the presence of a stressor, either literally or by a psychological withdrawal into fantasy, drug abuse, or apathy.

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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the study of the effects of psychological factors such as stress, emotions, thoughts, and behavior on the immune system.

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Optimists

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People who expect positive outcomes.

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Pessimists

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people who expect negative outcomes