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Chapter 1What is Stress?
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Overview Examines the etiology of the
author’s new way of defining stress by tracing its roots in four common ways of defining stress
Describes how the author’s new definition of stress integrates these four common views of stress
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Outline
Many researchers and theorists have contributed to defining what stress isEarly physiological research
pioneersPsychological stress researchersThe holistic health/wellness
movement A new definition of stress
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Stress Is Universal But Different for Different People
Everyone experiences stress To be alive is to be stressed Stress means different things
to different people
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What Is Stress?
Four common ways of defining stress Stress as response Stress as stimulus Stress as a transaction Stress as a holistic health
phenomenon
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Stress as Response
The early pioneers Claude Bernard (milieu
interieur) Walter Cannon (homeostasis) Hans Selye (General
Adaptation Syndrome—GAS)
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Stress as Stimulus
Psychological stress researchers
Holmes and Rahe (life events approach)
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Stress as a Transaction
Other psychological stress researchers Simeons (symbolic threats) Lazarus (threat appraisal model)
A person perceives a stimulus as threatening
This transforms it into a stressor, triggering the stress response
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Stress as a Holistic Health Phenomenon
Stress can be better understood in the context of one’s functioning level across six dimensions of wellness
Emotional Spiritual Environmental/
Occupational
Physical Social Intellectual
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Author’s Definition of Stress
Stress is a holistic transaction between an individual and a potential stressor resulting in a stress response
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To Understand This Explanation of Stress . . .
Potential stressors only become actual stressors when they are perceived as being beyond one’s ability to cope with
Determined as a result of a transaction between the individual, the potential stressor, and the environment in which the transaction occurs
Holistic transaction because it is influenced by the person’s overall well-being level
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Chapter 1: What Is Stress?
Summary
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