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stress - process we perceive and respond to events that are perceived
as harmful, threatening, or challenging
When are stress effects most deleterious? - When stressor is
unpredictable
stressor - includes any event or situation ...
stress - ✔✔process we perceive and respond to events that are perceived
as harmful, threatening, or challenging
When are stress effects most deleterious? - ✔✔When stressor is
unpredictable
stressor - ✔✔includes any event or situation that triggers coping
adjustments
How can stress experiences differ? - ✔✔individual physiology and levels of
reactivity but the same basic processes affect everyone
How do psychological influences of stress affect the stressor? -
✔✔Manageable vs unmanageable and is based on personalities and life
experiences
How did Holmes and Rahe measure stress? - ✔✔Using life change units
What is a better predictor of health problems? - ✔✔daily hassles
For minority populations, what is increased by daily hassles? -
✔✔hypertension
,What is a daily hassle? - ✔✔something that affects you everyday
-concern about weight, height, appearance
-misplacing or losing items
-symptoms of stress
Who can a daily hassle impact? - ✔✔the unborn
daily hassles are actual symptoms of: - ✔✔stress
What is a daily uplift? - ✔✔something that makes you feel better daily
-relating to friends
-feeling healthy
-sleep
-completing a task
How is role overload in women determined? - ✔✔By the quality of work
experience in each various role
Who does work stress impact? - ✔✔Almost everyone experiences work-
related stress at some point
What is a high level of perceived work stress linked to? - ✔✔risk of
emotional or mental problems and mood and anxiety disorders
social evaluative threat - ✔✔stressor in which people fear negative
evaluation by others of their appearance or ability
, stereotype threat - ✔✔stress in situation where person's characteristic has
potential to confirm a negative viewpoint about their social group
What is the relationship between stress and performance? - ✔✔inverted u-
shape
shift work - ✔✔desynchronized biological rhythms, headaches, sleep
disturbances
burnout - ✔✔a job-related state of physical and psychological exhaustion
Who does burnout mainly effect? - ✔✔jobs that involve responsibility for
other people
Does burnout happen to everybody? - ✔✔Burnout is NOT an inevitable
employment consequence
social interactions - ✔✔often serve as buffers against work stress
immunosuppression - ✔✔Linked to loneliness, interpersonal conflict,
bereavement-related depression, caregiver roles
What are examples of immunosuppression? - ✔✔divorce, bereavement,
unemployment, exam periods
Who discovered fight-or-flight? - ✔✔Walter Cannon
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