Transactional Model Of Stress Case Study

client and therapist to find and address the root of the problem, and therefore help the client prevent the problem becoming out of hand. However any psychological therapy is extremely time consuming and requires clients to be committed to the session and motivated to make the sessions work, in order to improve ones well-being.
A further psychological therapy developed from psychologist Kobasa. He came up with the idea of hardiness, which is a set of personality traits which enable individuals to combat stress. He defined it by three stages. The first stage involves “control” and encompasses of believing that you have control over events and the idea that you can overcome experiences. The second stage of commitment involves individuals feeling

Kobasa mainly tested his theory on males and as a result his results are not generalizable. However there is further evidence that can be used to support Kobasa’s results. Lifton et al (2006) concluded that low hardiness was disproportionately represented amongst university drop outs. Therefore suggests that individuals who score high on hardiness are more successful with coping with stress. As a result it enables the results to be reliable.

Furthermore, Lazarus and Folkmans approached stress and coping with stress with an alternative suggestion. They proposed the “transactional model of stress”. The model shows the interaction which occurs between an individual and the environment. As a result a stressful situation causes an imbalance between the demands of the event and the resources an individual holds. Therefore, people become stressed when the demands of the situation exceed the resources and possible outcomes the individual is able to apply. As a result stress can be caused by the interpretation of an event, rather than the actual event occurring. Thus the transactional model uses the cognitive approach to explain stress. The model consists of several major concepts; the first of which consists of primary and