Stress within Women

My term paper is on the topic of stress. Not just normal stress but I am focusing on stress with in women, young and old. For this term paper I am using three articles that are studies from professional psychologist on how stress with other conditions affects the women's health and emotion's of women. My last article is an interview form of six women with significant stress which induced health issues and they fought back, and developed their own arsenal of stress-busting habits. I will summaries the articles in the following paragraphs.

My first article is Stress, Rewards, and Change in the Centrality of Women's Family and Work Roles: Mastery as a Mediator. This study was conducted by Tina R. Norton, Anita Gupta, Mary Ann Parris Stephens, Lynn M. Martire, and Alone L. Townsend in March of 2005. The purpose of this study was to see and examine the role stress, rewards, mastery and centrality of women who occupy the four roles of caregiver to a disabled parent, a mother, a wife, and an employee. In this study, specifically, role mastery was tested as a mediator in the relationship between role experiences and change in role centrality. The participants were 195 women who simultaneously occupied the roles of primary care provider to a disabled parent, a mother to at least one child living at home, a wife, and an employee at work. The procedure involved in-person interviews using computer-assisted software, which took about 90 min. per interview. They took two interviews approximately one year apart, and the participants received $20 for each interview that they did. The results from the study suggest that increases in stress served to erode mastery and increases in rewarding role experiences served to enhance mastery. ...

... middle of paper ...

...they are becoming too stressed out and need to take the time to relax and let it all out.

This article as like the ones before has showed me that too much stress can cause chronic health problems and can sometimes even be deadly. I believe that stress has to do a lot with the people around you and also how you deal with events happening in you life at the time. I also believe that everyone should learn how to control their own stress and learn their own unique ways to help them save their lives, so they don?t hurt themselves. Also with these ladies?s I found out that sometimes you don?t think that your health problem would be related to stress until it is too late to help yourself. To tell the truth I was starting to get stressed about this paper, but then after I read these articles and I realized that I too should learn to relax and take one day at a time.