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How and Why Do We Experience Stress?
- activates thoughts, feelings,
- behaviors, and physiological arousal that promote adaptation/survival
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Stress
physical/mental response to challenging situation
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Stressor
- stressful stimulus
- a condition demanding adaptation
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Hassles
Situation causes minor irritation or frustration
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Traumatic stressor
- threatens one’s physical safety
- arouses fear, horror, helplessness
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Catastrophe Five stages that occur in the wake of natural disasters:
–Psychic numbness
–Automatic action
–Communal effort
–Letdown
–Recovery
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Media coverage expands the experience of a catastrophe
–24/7 news coverage
–Transmission to large
numbers of unaffected parties
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Vicarious traumatization
- Severe stress =exposure to
- traumatic images or stories
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Post traumatic stress disorder:
Continued or delayed stress reaction in which an individual involuntarily re-experiences emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of past trauma
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Chronic Stressors
–Work
–Familial responsibilities
–School
–Money
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Cognitive Appraisal
Assessment of a stressor/dealing with it
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Burnout
emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment
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Social Readjustment Ratings Scale
measure stress levels attached to common life changes
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