PSYC 3390 Chapter 5: Chapter 5.doc

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson- Hennig

Document Summary

Stressors are adjustive demands (like not having enough money to pay for rent) to the effects they create within an organism as stress. Coping strategies are the efforts to deal with stress. Stress is a by-product of poor or inadequate coping. All positive and negative situations that require adjustment can be stressful: eustress is positive stress and distress is negative stress. Examples from the environment include prejudice, discrimination, death of a loved one, etc. Examples of personal limitations include physical handicaps, loneliness, guilt, etc. Frustrations will often leave a person feeling inadequate or incompetent: conflicts: Stress results from the simultaneous occurrence of two or more incompatible needs or motives. Do they get their dream job and work with someone they despise or do they not take the job to avoid that person: double-approach: involves choosing between two or more desirable goals. The experience may cause more eustress than distress, the stress is still real and it"s difficult.