Stress and intimate relationships.

Question 1

What does it mean when we say context matters?

Answer 1

Couples do not live in a bubble, the outside world influences couples

Question 2

What are proximal conditions?

Answer 2

Things that are closer to home, time of day, friends, house, family.

Question 3

What are Distal conditions?

Answer 3

Conditions that are more global in scale such as: culture, economic climate, nationality, historical period, and global conditions

Question 4

do distal issues effect proximal issues?

Answer 4

Yes they do

Question 5

What is easier to identify? Distal or promixal issues?

Answer 5

Proximal

Question 6

What kind of stressor is one that comes and goes, such as having your car breaking down.

Answer 6

These are acute stressors

Question 7

What are the charateritics of acute stressors?

Answer 7

They tend to have a more dramatic and sudden impact.

Question 8

What kind of stressor is one that goes on for long period of time

Answer 8

These are chronic stressors

Question 9

What are the charateristics of chronic stressors?

Answer 9

They are constant and subtle in their impact, but will always be there as long as you are in the environment.

Question 10

Can Chronic stressors have acute periods?

Answer 10

Yes they can, if something happens that increases your stress it would cause an acute episode.

Question 11

What is a uncontrollable stressor?

Answer 11

Uncontrollable and unpredictable stressor that tends to have a more dramatic and detrimental impact on relationships

Question 12

What is a controllable stressor?

Answer 12

A stressor that is known before it happens. Mush like graduating university, or having a child, or preparing for a move.

Question 13

In a interdependent relationship how will stress effect your partner?

Answer 13

We know that it will effect the partner, although we are unaware to what degree the stress affect the partner.

The effects of stress may not be equal.

Question 14

What is the most common source of stress?

Answer 14

1. debt being brought into marriage.
2. Balancing job and marriage
3. Frequency of sexual relations

Question 15

What are the concrete effects stress has on us?

Answer 15

• it takes our time away
• it often takes our money
• preoccupies thoughts.

Question 16

How does stress take our time?

Answer 16

Time spent dealing with the stress takes time away from doing anything else.

Question 17

How does stress take our money

Answer 17

Often keeps us from work, or cost money

Question 18

What is the physiological impact of stress?

Answer 18

• Your body enters the fight or flight response \

- increases physical performance but weakens the immune system.

Question 19

Is the bodily stress response voluntary?

Answer 19

Nope, it is involuntary and can be damaging time as you maintain the stress response.

Question 20

What is the psychological impact of stress?

Answer 20

Stress tends to improve our attention, memory, and performance in relation to the stressful situation and simple tasks.

Question 21

What is the negative psychological impact of stress?

Answer 21

Stress decreases performance on complex and deliberative tasks (such as communicating and empathy)

Question 22

What is the Yerkes-Dodson law?

Answer 22

it is the tunnel vision response.

The ability to think logically is reduced and you will have more `conflict.

Question 23

Can stress damage relationships if not handled properly?

Answer 23

absolutely

Question 24

How does stress hurt intimate relationships?

Answer 24

• lower sexual relationship satisfaction
• poorer communication and problem solving
• divorce

Question 25

What is stress spillover?

Answer 25

Stress from one area of someones life has an impact on the other areas (intrapersonal)

Question 26

What is stress spillover called?

Answer 26

GLOP

Question 27

What is stress crossover?

Answer 27

Stress that one partner faces that has an impact on the other partner

Question 28

What is an example of glop?

Answer 28

Stress cramming for an exam or having a fight with your friends then becoming more angry at you partner

Question 29

What is an example of stress crossover?

Answer 29

Stress cramming for an exam or having a fight with your friends then becoming your partner is effected by your stress.`

Question 30

What is the main problem with stressors?

Answer 30

They rarely come one at a time.

Question 31

What is the key in communicating stress with your partner.

Answer 31

Telling your partner what you want, actually what you want, not to be silent but to be direct and forward with your wants.

Tell your partner how you want them to help you deal with your stress.

Question 32

True or False:

Couples will most likely experience of pileup stress

Answer 32

True.

Question 33

What is the main issue with pileup stress?

Answer 33

They lower the overall function of a intimate relationship.

Question 34

True or false:

The effects of stress are always negative

Answer 34

False,

Encountering difficult things in your life allow you and your partner to tackle challenge together and become stronger.

Question 35

When is stress in a relationship not negative?

Answer 35

If couples have he resources to cope with the stressor they face, then the experience of having a successfully coped with the stressors may be beneficial to their relationship.

Question 36

What is the key reason why stress impacts relationships negatively?

Answer 36

We are often unaware of the stressful experience that is leading to the negative environment and not your partner being a butt head.

Question 37

True or false:

Learning to manage stress contributes to couple resilience.

Answer 37

True

Question 38

_____ is key to building resilience to stressors

Answer 38

coping

Question 39

couples with high levels of stress early on in their relationship see what outcome with stress in the future?

Answer 39

They will see lower levels of spillover and handle stress much much better.

allows them to better handle stress in the future.