Exam 1: Week 1 content Flashcards
stress
made up of both the persons stress response and their stress exposure
- the feeling of being stressed and overwhelmed
- A state of mind and body functionality that is responding to something causing an issue (stressor) for the individual
stress response
made up of psychological and biological responses
stress response types (2)
- psychological stress response
- biological stress response
psychological stress response
perceiving that demands exceed our ability to cope
- Feeling you can not cope with all the things that you had to do
- Difficulties feel like they are piling up so high that you cannot overcome them
biological stress response
physical changes in the body from stress
- Pupils dilating
- Heart rate increasing
- Muscles tense and tremble
- Perspiration begins
- Respiration quickens and - bronchial tubes dilate
stress exposures (4)
- crises/traumas
- major life events
- daily hassles
- ambient
crises/traumas
unforeseen and unpredictable events
major life events
infrequent events, often involving life transitions which can be positive or negative
daily hassles
frequent minor nuisances that strain our ability to cope
ambient
chronic, negative, non urgent, physically perceptible, and unchangeable/uncontrollable
4 theoretical perspectives of psychological stress
- adaptation
- demands exceed resources
- interruption of goals
- threat to harm
adaptation
views the stressfulness of an event as the amount of adaptation or change it requires of an average individual
- Positive events can be stressors if they require substantial adaptation
demands exceeds resources
comes from job stress literatures and the focus is on amount of demands of task and amount of control
- High demand and low control situations are stressful
interruption of goals
threat is primarily rooted in disruption of roles of plans in the context of a person’s life goal
threat to harm
(most used def) stressful events as those that are consensually seen as harmful of threatening
- Amount of harm, intensity, duration, and the extent to which an event is objectively uncontrollable contribute to the potential magnitude of consensual threat
T/F stress exposures cause a stress response?
False
- stress exposure does not necessarily lead to a stress response
- People confuse stress exposure with stress responses ⇒ the thing vs how you respond
- Almost anything can count as a stressor exposure
4 determinants of psychological stress responses
- Psychological: personality, cognitive style, coping
- Environmental: prior and other stress exposures
- Behavioral: sleep/wae, diet, activity
- Neurobiological: HPa axis, sympathetic nervous system, genetics
Which would not be considered a stressor exposure:
Noise
Earthquake
Feeling overwhelmed
Having a baby
Feeling overwhelmed ⇒ response instead of exposure
stress exposure
the events themselves
- The exposures do not necessarily cause a stress response
which gender related groups report more stress?
cisgender women and trans/gender nonconforming students
- more than cisgender men
T/F cisgender men predominantly report moderate and high stress rather than low stress but at lower rates than the other groups
True
large scale surveys
national and local surveys
what amounts of stress do students typically rate within a 30 day period? (%)
about 78% moderate and high stress
- about 20% report low stress
common stressors for college students vs top stressors
Procrastination, personal appearance, finances, academics, etc.
- tops stressors are academics, relationships, and finances
