Stress Essay

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Everyday life can make people feel a range of emotions. Passing an important exam may make one feel happy, whereas receiving a speeding ticket from a police officer may make a person angry. These are just two events that can happen any day, at any time. What emotion was the person feeling while studying for that important exam? How was the person who received the ticket feeling? Studying for an exam and receiving a traffic ticket can cause stress. Stress is something that people have almost every day and it can even affect people’s health and psychological state (Pietilä & Rytkönen, 2008). Usually when people undergo stress, they can sweat or possibly even become short of breath. Inside of the body, the heart will pound and stress hormones are released (de Kloet, 2008). These symptoms of stress can occur when feeling both types of possible stress, distress or eustress. When people think of stress, they usually think of all the times they were put on the spot and felt anxious, e.g., when they were late to an exam or late to pay their bills. However, eustress is what is known as “good stress.” It is the effect of positive reactions within a person related to stress that people need to promote their health and well-being (O'Sullivan, 2011). For example, when having a baby, it can be very stressful but exciting time in one’s life. Then, there is distress which is the effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors. Nevertheless, people rarely feel eustress day to day. Distress takes the cake because it is felt much more often than eustress. Stress, in general, could come from many places, such as dealing with difficult college work to going through a family crisis. In this day and age, people are usually concerned for their mental ... ... middle of paper ... ...en young adults who attend college and those who do not attend and their levels of stress were all looked at. To examine this, participants were given a survey revealing about what is happening in their lives and asking questions on stress. A simple T-test was used to examine the data and it was a between-subject design. It was hypothesized that young adults who attend college experience more stress than young adults who do not attend college. The null hypothesis would be that both groups of young adults experience the same amount of stress. Lastly, my hypothesis could be wrong if it was discovered that young adults who are not in college experience more stress than young adults that to go to college. In this experiment, economic backgrounds of the participants were not looking into, so that could be a variable that could possibly change the outcome of the research.

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