STRESS

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What is stress?


What does ‘stress’ mean? You are about to write an exam? You’re stressed. Awaiting for your results? You’re stressed. Relationship lousy ? You’re stressed . Problem at work ? Health worries? Too much pressure all around ? OK, so you’re stressed. Isn’t everyone.

Life without stimulation or challenge would be intolerably boring and reasonable amounts of pressure heighten our arousal and performance.

Like job satisfaction, stress is not a precise term and it is used in slightly different ways by different authors. Approaches to the study of stress have taken different forms, as shown below:

· as an organism’s response to a demand or to events that challenge it (Seyle, 1976);

· as an event external to the individual that places demands upon him/her (Kahn, 1964);

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