PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Avoidance Coping, Stress Management, Eustress

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Chapter 6 stress and coping in sport and exercise. Stress is process that links situational demands to an individual"s reactions to the outcomes of that experience: consistent with cognitive-based models of stress that emphasize dynamic interrelationships between environment and people"s thoughts and behaviours in that environment. Stress an experience produced through person-situation relationship that is perceived as taxing or exceeding person"s resources. Stressors external events, forces, and situations that have the potential to be interpreted as stressful: each athlete or exerciser might interpret situations and stressors in unique ways. Not all stress is negative and to be avoided. We experience stress only if the situation is meaningful or important to us if you don"t really care about what happens, then the situation will not be perceived as stressful. Anger demeaning offence against me and mine. Fright immediate, concrete, and overwhelming physical danger. Shame failing to live up to an ego ideal. Sadness having experienced an irrevocable loss.