Chapter 14- Stress, Coping And Health Flashcards
What is stress?
Response to a situation that threatens, or appears to threaten, one’s sense of well-being
What is stressor?
Something that triggers a stress response
What is acute stressor?
Short-term finite stressful situation (eg. Studying for finals, competing in a football game)
What is chronic stressor?
Long-term stressor with no definitive end (eg. Poverty, high pressure job)
appraisal and perception of a situation trigger?
Triggers the emotional state connected to stress
Feeling frustrated?
An emotion experienced when something prevents us from reaching a goal
Feeling pressure
An expectation or demand that one should act in a certain way
Feeling conflict
Discomfort due to two or more incompatible goals or impulses
Approach-approach conflict
Choose between two good job offers
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
choose between a bad job offer or a no job offer
Approach-avoidance conflict
Choose between a great job offer but have to relocate
Feeling endangered
Life-threatening situations produce stress
Daily hassles(micro stressors)
Small, everyday problems that accumulate to become a source of stress (eg. Bad or rude drivers, can’t find keys or cellphone)
Life changes
Altered circumstances requiring adjustment (eg. Marriage, death, illness, finals, breakups,…)
Social readjustment rating scale (SRRS)
Assigns life change units to various events that can happen in one’s life
Traumatic events
Unexpected disruptive events such as a natural disaster or victim of violence
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
An anxiety disorder caused by a major traumatic event, characterized by persistent, frightening thoughts or memories of the event, along with anxiety and depression
Chronic negative situations
Continued negative situation( eg. Living in a dangerous place, enduring illness, constant environment stressors, poverty.)
Socio-cultural conditions
Ethic minority groups who confront prejudice or discrimination or move to a new country
Stereotype threat
Suspicions, confusion and resulting vigilance experienced by minority groups members as they interact with majority group members
Fight or flight response
A series of physiological reactions in the sympathetic nervous system and endocrine system.
Mobilize an organism to either fight or flee an enemy
The steps of general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
1)Alarm (Body’s reaction to initial exposure to stressor—fight or flight)
2)Resistance (body’s attempt to stabilize if stressor continues, may result in vulnerability to disease )
3) Exhaustion (further exposure to stressor depletes energy and resistance
Emotional response to stress
Stress triggers emotions and changes mood. The greater the amount of stress, the more negative the emotions associated with stress
Appraisal in cognitive response
Ability to handle stressful situations.