PSYC 3170 Chapter 6: Stress
1 Jun 2016
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Researchers focused on stressful events themselves, called stressors. Like noise, crowding, a bad relationship, a round of job interviews, or the commute to work. The study of stressors has helped define some conditions that are more likely to produce stress than others, but a focus on stressful events cannot fully explain the experience of stress. A stressful experience may be stressful to some people but not to others. Stress is the consequence of a person"s appraisal processes: the assessment of whether personal resources are sufficient to meet the demands of the environment. When a person"s resources are more than adequate to deal with a difficult situation, he or she may feel little stress and experience a sense of challenge instead. When the individual perceives that his or her resources will probably be sufficient to deal with the event but only at the cost of great effort, he or she may feel a moderate amount of stress.
