Stress

Question 1

Biopsychosocial explanation of stress

Answer 1

Biological: experiences differ according to everyones unique physiology and levels of physiological reactivity.
Psychological: how challenging situations are appraised
Sociocultural: How we respond to stress from different sources

Question 2

What are the 4 classes of effects of stress?

Answer 2

Emotional : distress, anxiety, fear, depression, anger, frustration, lowered self-esteem, learned helplessness, guilt
Behavioural: smoking, alcohol, poor adherence, social withdrawal, illicit drugs, risky sexual behaviours
Cognitive: poor attention, errors in decision-making, hypervigilance for threats, bias to interpret ambiguous events as threatening
Physiological: activation of nervous system, hormone production, metabolic function, immune function, fatigue, disease and illness