PSYC 3170 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 – Stress
6 Jun 2016
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Stress is a negative emotional experience accompanied by predictable, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral changes that are directed either toward altering the stressful event or accommodating to its effects. Stressors are stressful events: eg: noise, crowding, a bad relationship, a round of job interviews, the commute to work, 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, they may feel little stress and experience a sense of challenge instead. When the individual perceives that their resources will probably be sufficient to deal with the event but only at the cost of great effort, they may feel a moderate amount of stress.
