Topic: Stress and Health. Thesis statement: Stress can impact you in many ways, not just mentally but physically, and can have a significant negative effect on your body, mind, relationships, happiness, work, and your overall health and well-being. While a little bit of stress can be healthy, it can safely push you to put in more effort in both your personal and professional life, and likely won’t cause any severe problems, being stressed out all the time or feeling huge bouts of stress regularly, is detrimental to your health. Search strategy and evaluation of resources: My search starts looking at EBSCO eBook collection, Managing Stress: From Theory to Application, to have a concept of how to handle stress. Currency: The information on the …show more content…
The domains addressed within the text include sport psychology, clinical psychology, organizational psychology, developmental psychology, police psychology and health psychology. Relevance & Accuracy: Major life events are relatively infrequent in the life of any individual. Events such as losing things, traffic congestion, being late for appointments, etc. are relatively minor in severity but their number and frequency have the potential to affect health. Kanner et al. (1997). Rosa Padilla Stress and Health Relevance & Accuracy (cont...): Research began to show how emotional support from health professionals could help alleviate the consequences for those whose social networks were ineffective (Auerbach and Kilmann, 1997). Authority: The responsible of this information is Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Currency: This book was published in the eBook in 2011. Purpose: This book brings together related issues regarding the application of theory to practice into a single source. Search strategy and evaluation of
Stress comes from many areas of life especially as an adult student incorporating school at a time in life when family and work are paramount. “Adults just returning to school have substantially higher anxiety about school in general and writing in particular than younger students.”3 Stress, best described by its "synonyms: strain, pressure, (nervous) tension, worry, anxiety, trouble, difficultly"1 has a medical history "According to the American Psychological Association, the majority of office visits to the doctor involve stress-related complaints, and stress is linked to the six leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, and suicide."2 If managed, stress can be a way to inform me; learning how to recognize my level of stress capacity is important. The Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory 5 http://www.stress.org/holmes-rahe-stress-inventory/ is a list of stressful events that contribute to illness. My personal score on this life stress inventory is 236; I fall in the category of about a fifty percent chance of a major health breakdown in the next...
The purpose of this paper is to define stress and how it effects the body's physiological systems. This paper will include the normal functions and organs involved in the following five physiological systems, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, immune and musculoskeletal. This paper will also include a description of a chronic illness associated with each physiological system and how the illness is affected by stress.
Jones, F, Bright, J, Clow, A (2001). Stress: myth, theory and research. Essex: Pearson Education Limited. p. 12.
This research paper concerns how individuals perceive stress and the serious effect on their psychological thought process and physical and mental health and how they can cope with their anxiety driven thoughts. Research was gathered using printed material obtained at the Syracuse Bird Library, and also using various online sources and scholarly journals. One printed source written by Frank Campbell addresses the health effects stress can have on an individual while author Richard Lazarus explores coping mechanisms individuals can use to attempt to get rid of the their stress. Author Bruce G. Charlton in his publication in the Journal of Medical Ethics, claims that stress is an empty word, with little value and explains the origin of the Stress. Robert Lazarus explains the concept of stress along with the ambiguity associated with the word. Ruth O’Hara explains what situations causes stress. While authors Carolyn Aldwin and Sandi Mann discuss coping and how to alleviate stress.
To consider stress as an epidemic in contemporary society, one must understand what stress is, how it is caused, and how it manifests itself in the quality of lives. Early recognition of stress came by way of a young medical student known as Hans Selye, who observed identical emotional symptoms and signs in patients, although they suffered from differing physical conditions (Rosch, n.d.). Rosch (n.d.) explains that it was investigation of this appearance of ‘general sickness’ that led Selye to develop the theory that chronic stress causes long-term chemical changes in the body, thus identifying stress as a major cause of disease. Stress, usually considered to be a negative feeling, is the body’s reaction to per...
Basically, we all know and understand that stress is bad for us. However, it is a natural state of the body, which is a good thing itself when present in small quantities....
Stress is a common factor in all of our daily lives. Learning to manage stress can be life changing and be very useful in both our personal and work environments. Stress can be caused by many different situations, such as family problems, work problems, finances, deadlines, information overload, unhealthy eating, lack of exercise, public speaking, trust issues, friendships, and so on. Stress is defined as, “an adaptive response, mediated by individual characteristics and/or psychological processes, that is a consequence of any external action, situation, or event that places special physical and/or psychological demands upon a person” (Kreitner and Kinicki, p.551). Stress triggers are different for different people. Although we would like to avoid stress, it is impossible. We need stress in our lives in order to stay alive and help us make quick decisions in life or death situations. Stress can actually be a good thing such as eustress, stress that is good or produces a positive outcome. When a person experiences stress it causes one of two reactions, fight or flight, which allows us to make the decision to either accept the situation or run away. According to Kreitner and Kinicki , “Physiologically, this stress response is a biochemical “passing gear” involving hormonal changes that mobilize the body for extraordinary demands” ( p.550). The main point is we cannot avoid stress; stress is good for us to a certain extent. Our efforts need to be aimed at managing stress and learning to live with and embrace it.
Since stress can seriously damage individuals’ health and well-being in this paper, the researcher will identify stress, the causes, and treatment.
Some effects can include heart problems, musculoskeletal conditions, migraines, and headaches. Other effects that could arise include internal problems in our body. people who identified as being in poor health were more than twice as likely (60%) to report experiencing a great deal of stress within the past month. Eight in 10 (80%) of those in poor health reported that their own health problems contributed to their stress, and more than half (58%) attributed the health problems of a family member (Rober wood 2014). Every person has a different kind of stress. There are a several causes of stress, such as life, family, health, study and work stress. Forty percent of U.S. workers admit to experiencing office stress, and one-quarter say work is the biggest source of stress in their lives (WebMD). One of the most causes of the stress of college students is the examination and test, that makes us feel very stressful and nervous. Stress makes us difficult control our emotion. Our results suggest that even mild stress, such as that encountered in daily life, may impair the ability to use cognitive techniques known to control fear and anxiety,” lead author Candace Raio, Ph.D. said in a press release. Also, stress could make us gain some weight and that would be impacting our body and heart health. Also, it is contributing to the high blood pressure. It has been suggested that stress triggers
“Stress has become such an ingrained part of our vocabulary and daily existence, that it is difficult to believe that our current use of the term originated only a little more than 50 years ago….” (Paul J. Rosch, M.D.) The research of stress is a really young area of psychology. They find out new thing about it every day along with the development of technology.
In some instances in our life we experience stress. Stress can have both a positive or negative impact in a person’s life. On the positive side, stress can be the force that drives a person to perform well during an interview or a piano recital. However, from another perspective, stress can be a negative force that people do not desire. For example, if a person is waiting in traffic for a long time, then, the resulting stress will have negative impact on their mood and their day can be spoilt. If a person’s stress is left untreated for a certain amount of time, then there is a high chance that it can become chronic. This essay will focus on some of the effects that stress can have on a person and the
Stress is a major concern in today’s society. Stress is linked to many different ailments as well as fatigue and many other physical symptoms. Physicians have proven that stress is very dangerous, attributing to diseases and a shorter life span. Some kind of stress management is recommended in order to help one deal with their stress so it doesn’t consume them.
Stress is a normal physical response to events that make one feel threatened or upset one’s balance in some way. It comes to us naturally, when we need it. When working properly, it helps one stay focused, energetic, and alert. In emergency situations, stress can save people’s lives; such as with the fight to flight response. So in situations it comes upon us to benefit us and to be helpful. The stress response also helps one rise to meet challenges, and also helps keep one’s concentration. Although stress can be good, beyond a certain point, stress stops being helpful and starts causing major damage to a person’s health, mood, productivity, relationships, and their overall quality of life (www.helpg...
People are always at risk when it comes to stress because it is something they deal with on daily basis. Stress can be defined as a psychological or a physiological reaction that happens when an individual comes in contact with a stressful event. When people think of stress they tend to think that stress is only bad meanwhile there can be a good reactions when it comes to stress. People need a certain amount of stress to work well and have the energy and willpower to achieve goals that they have set up for themselves. If life was not stressful we would all be bored and we would not give our 100 percent when we worked. Bad stress can lead to complete shot down. Someone being exposed to stressful events on a regular basis can result to having mental health problems. There are many different ways to deal with stress such as hobbies and exercise. Some people are not well educated when it comes to stress disorders. This subject should be more elaborated because if untreated stress can lead into bigger or worst mental health problems. Having poor education on the subject can interfere with getting the proper kind of help someone would need. This research essay will be talking about all the different kind of bad stress that can be harmful to a person. This research essay will also talk about all the information a person would need in order to be educated on the subject. (Allard)
The hassles, deadlines, frustrations and demands of modern life have made stress so common that it has become a way of life for people. In small doses, stress can...