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level: Nature, Type & Sources of Stress

Questions and Answers List

pg 51 to pg 57

level questions: Nature, Type & Sources of Stress

Question	Answer
The term used to describe the level of stress that is good for you and is a good asset for achieving peak performance and managing minor crisis	Eustress
Manifestation of stress that causes body's wear and tear	Distress
The pattern of responses an organism makes to a stimulus. event that disturbs the equilibrium and exceeds a person's ability to cope	Stress
Events that cause our body to give the stress response	Stressors
The non-specific response of a body to any demand	Hans Selye definition of stress
Cognitive Theory of Stress	By Lazarus and his colleagues
Perception of a new or changing environment as positive, neutral or negative in its consequences	Primary Appraisal
Assessment of the damage that has already been done by the event	Harm
Assessment of the possible future damage that may be brought by the event	Threat
Associated with confident expectations about ability to cope with the stressful event, the potential to overcome and and even profit from the event	Challenge
Assessment of one's coping abilities and resources and whether they will be enough to meet the challenge, harm or threat	Secondary Appraisal
Past experience and controllability	Factors influencing appraisal
Demands that change the state of our body	Physical stresses
Aspects of our surroundings that are often unavoidable or are catastrophic events	Environmental stresses
Those that we generate ourselves in our mind	Psychological stresses
This results from blocking of needs and desires by something or someone that hinders us from achieving a desired goal	Frustration
These may occur between two or more incompatible needs or motives	Conflicts
Stem form beliefs based upon expectations from inside us to ourselves	Internal pressure
These may be brought about from people who make excessive demands on us	Social pressure
These are induced externally and result from our interaction with other people	Social stress
Personal stressed that we endure as individuals due to happenings in our daily life	Hassles
These include being involved in a variety of extreme events like fire, accident, war etc	Traumatic events