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Stress
The experience of a perceived threat(real or imagined) to one's mental,physical, or spiritual well-being, resulting from a series physiological responses and adaptations.
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Behaviors
Actions(direct or indirect) that are based on conscious (sometimes unconscious) thoughts.
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Helpless-hopeless personality
Describes a person who has given up on life, or aspects of it, as a result of repeated failure.
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Hardy Personality
A term coined by Maddi and Kobasa: personality characteristics that, in combination, seem to buffer against stress; control, commitment, and challenge.
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Survivor personality
The traits that comprise a unique winning attitude to overcome adversity and challenges, no matter what the odds my be, so that one comes out the victor, no the victim.
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Sensation seeker
These courageous people confront stress by calculating their risks in extreme situations and then proceeding with gusto.
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Type A Personality
This personality, once associated with time urgency, is now associated with unresolved anger issues.
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Time Urgency
A characteristic or behavior of someone who displays Type A personality, someone who is constantly time conscious.
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Polyphasia
A trait of thinking or doing many activities at once, also known as multitasking. This is also a trait of the Type A personality.
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Multitasking
Acting on many responsibilities at one time (driving and talking on a cell phone) to save time, yet potentially compromising the integrity of both outcomes.
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Proclivity
natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition:
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Codependency
A stress-prone personality with many traits and behaviors that seem to increase the likelihood of perceived and the inability to cope effectively with it; addictive in nature; based on the need to make others dependent to receive self-validation.
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Enablers
A term coined in the alcohol recovery movement, referring to a person who enables a spouse, parent, or child to continue either a substance or process addiction.
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Survival skills
A term associated with codependency in which certain behaviors are adopted in adolescence to "survive" demanding, alcoholic, or abusive parents.
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mores
folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group.
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Folkways
the ways of living, thinking, and acting in a human group, built up without conscious design but serving as compelling guides of conduct.
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Process addiction
The addiction to a behavior process such as shopping, intercourse, gambling, television watching, cutting, and codependent behaviors.
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Ardent
having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent:an ardent vow; ardent love.intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic; zealous:an ardent theatergoer. an ardent student of French history.vehement; fierce:They were frightened by his ardent, burning eyes.burning, fiery, or hot:
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Illusion of control
A term used in association with codependent behavior, thinking that one can control (manipulate) things/others that one really cannot.
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Self-reliance
Is the ability to be inspired from within, not motivated solely by external factors.
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Helpless-Hopeless Personality
Describes a person who has given up on life, or aspects of it, as a result of repeated failure.
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Intrinsic
belonging to a thing by its very nature:
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Locus of control
A sense of who or what is in control of one's life; people with an internal locus of control take responsibility for their actions; those with an external locus of control place responsibility on external factors like luck or the weather; the latter is as
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Hardy Personality
A term coined by Maddi and Kobasa; personality characteristics that, in combination, seem to buffer against stress: control, commitment, and challenge.
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Survivor Personality
The traits that comprise a unique winning attitude to overcome adversity and challenges, no matter what the odds may be, so that one comes out the victor, not the victim.
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Biphasic
Survivor personality traits; the ability to use both right-brain and left-brain thinking processes to successfully deal with a problem or stressors.
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Personality traits
Thoughts and behaviors that combine to form or color one's personality; in this case, cognitive traits associated with survival.
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Sensation Seeker
Also known as Type R Personality, these courageous people confront stress by calculating their risks in extreme situations and then proceed with gusto.
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Self esteem
The sense of underpinning self-values, self-acceptance, and self-love; thought to be a powerful buffer against perceived threats.
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Underpinning
a foundation or basis:
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Substance addiction
The addiction to a host of substances, from nicotine and caffeine to alcohol and various drugs.
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