W4

• Eustress


  Positive stress that motivates you to continue working
• Distress


  Negative stress that describe unpleasant feelings that may cause problems in mind
• Types of Stressors


  • Internal - come from within you like thoughts that include fear, uncertainties about the future
  • External - come outside of you like situations, people, and experiences
• Hans Selye: 'It's not stress that kills us, it's our reaction to it.'
• Emotion


  Normally quite short-lived, but intense
• Feelings


  Influenced by our perception of the situation, which is why the same emotion can trigger different feelings among people experiencing it
• Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ)


  The ability to perceive, interpret, demonstrate, control, evaluate, and use emotions to communicate with and relate to others effectively and constructively
• Emotions are multi-dimensional, or having various intensities
• Emotions


  • Anger
  • Sadness
  • Fear
  • Enjoyment
  • Love
  • Surprise
  • Disgust
  • Shame
• Emotional Intelligence Affects: Physical and Mental Health (75%), Relationships (55%), Work Performance (60%)
• stress is a reaction of the mind and body to a stimulus that disturbs the well-being, state of calm, or equilibrium of a person.
• stress


  the means your body reacts to challenges and makes you all set to face them with strength, attention, and energy.
• overload stress in life will result to both physical and emotional disturbances
• stress impacts the thinking and feelings at adolescents plus their behaviors later on adulthood
• 3 ways to view stress

  1. stress as a stimulus
  2. stress as a response
  3. stress as relational
• stress and its sources

  academic stress

  social stress

  financial stress

  family problems

  romantic relationships
• coping is the process of spending conscious effort and energy to solve personal and interpersonal problems
• adaptive - positive that successfully diminish the amount of stress being experienced and provide constructive feedback for the user e.g. exercise, meditation, seeking therapy
• maladaptive - a stress that describes unpleasant feelings that may cause problems e.g. drinking, gambling, intrusive thoughts
• adaptive coping

  social coping

  meaning- focused coping

  proactive coping
• negative coping or proactive coping


  provide short term relief include dissociation, sensitization, numbing out, anxious avoidance of problem and escape
• 3 most common distinctions

  appraisal- focused strategy

  problem- focused strategy

  emotion- focused strategy
• conventional - western world. most people are familiar with them and their effects on stress
• alternative - focus on the person experiencing stress, providing methods for mental reframing or management
• conventional methods

  traditional medicine

  psychiatric therapy

  anxiety- reducing medications
• alternative methods


  yoga

  meditation

  transactional model of stress