PREVIEW QUESTIONS
Chapter 13- Stress, Coping, and Health
Preview Questions- Pgs 521- 551
1. What is stress?
As any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten or are perceived to threaten one’s well being and that thereby tax one’s coping abilities. The threat may be to immediate physical safety, long- range security, self- esteem, reputation, peace of mind, or many other things that one values.
2. How is significant are minor, everyday stressors?
Stress is a common, everyday event, and even seemingly minor stressors or hassles can be problematic. To a large degree, stress is subjective and lies in the eye of the beholder.
3. How objective are our appraisals of stress?
The experience of feeling stressed depends on what events one notices and how one chooses to appraise or interpret them. Events that are stressful for one person may be routine for another.
4. What is frustration?
Occurs win any situation in which the pursuit of some goal is thwarted. In essence, you experience frustration when you want something and you can’t have it. Everyone has to deal with frustration virtually every day. Traffic jams, difficult daily commutes, and annoying drivers, for instance, are a routine source of frustration that can elicit anger and aggression.
5. What are the three types of conflicts?
There are three principal types of conflicts: approach- approach, avoidance- avoidance, and approach- avoidance. The third type is especially stressful. Vacillation is a common response to approach- avoidance conflict.
6. Which types of conflict are especially stressful?
Life changes are any noticeable alterations in one’s living circumstances that require readjustment. Thomas Holmes, Richard Rahe, and their colleagues first demonstrated the importance of life changes in the 1960s. Theorizing that stress might make people more vulnerable to illness, they interviewed thousands of tuberculosis patients to find out what kinds of events had preceded the onset of their
Preview Questions- Pgs 521- 551
1. What is stress?
As any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten or are perceived to threaten one’s well being and that thereby tax one’s coping abilities. The threat may be to immediate physical safety, long- range security, self- esteem, reputation, peace of mind, or many other things that one values.
2. How is significant are minor, everyday stressors?
Stress is a common, everyday event, and even seemingly minor stressors or hassles can be problematic. To a large degree, stress is subjective and lies in the eye of the beholder.
3. How objective are our appraisals of stress?
The experience of feeling stressed depends on what events one notices and how one chooses to appraise or interpret them. Events that are stressful for one person may be routine for another.
4. What is frustration?
Occurs win any situation in which the pursuit of some goal is thwarted. In essence, you experience frustration when you want something and you can’t have it. Everyone has to deal with frustration virtually every day. Traffic jams, difficult daily commutes, and annoying drivers, for instance, are a routine source of frustration that can elicit anger and aggression.
5. What are the three types of conflicts?
There are three principal types of conflicts: approach- approach, avoidance- avoidance, and approach- avoidance. The third type is especially stressful. Vacillation is a common response to approach- avoidance conflict.
6. Which types of conflict are especially stressful?
Life changes are any noticeable alterations in one’s living circumstances that require readjustment. Thomas Holmes, Richard Rahe, and their colleagues first demonstrated the importance of life changes in the 1960s. Theorizing that stress might make people more vulnerable to illness, they interviewed thousands of tuberculosis patients to find out what kinds of events had preceded the onset of their