Essays Tagged: "Stressor"

Anxiety and depression in african-americans

ety in individuals is stress. Defined stress is an internal response caused by the application of a stressor or anything that requires coping behaviour. For example the pressure of a job, supporting a ... oping behaviour. For example the pressure of a job, supporting a family or getting an education are stressors that can result in depression and anxiety. Individuals and groups that have numerous resou ...

(6 pages) 190 0 3.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Stress

Everyone has stress, and we all have different stressors. Each person has their own way ofcoping with stress. some ignore their problems while othe ... ping with stress. some ignore their problems while others face them head on. There are fourtypes of stressors and we all experience them at some point in our lives.One of these stressors is hassles. H ... take my pills all of the time. My being sick is abig hassle, but it is not really a high quality of stressor. Hassles can cause quite a bit of stress, butthey are nothing compared to a catastrophe.Cat ...

(4 pages) 311 0 4.2 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Coping with stress in a workplace

oesn't have enough experience or expertise to accomplish the task(s) at hand. Both of these type of stressors are very detrimental to an individual's health. In fact because employees feel as if they ... having some sort of job related stress is very high. Now lets move on to physical work environment stressors.When people think of physical work environment they usually think of some type of hard lab ...

(9 pages) 734 1 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

The effects of altitude on human physiology.

es is the diminished ability to obtainoxygen from the atmosphere. If the adaptive responses to this stressor areinadequate the performance of body systems may decline dramatically. Ifprolonged the res ... lood intocapillaries. All of these changes are a regular and normal response of thebody to external stressors. The question involved with altitude changesbecomes what happens when the normal responses ...

(14 pages) 69 0 2.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

The effects of altitude on human physiology

es is the diminished ability to obtainoxygen from the atmosphere. If the adaptive responses to this stressor areinadequate the performance of body systems may decline dramatically. Ifprolonged the res ... lood intocapillaries. All of these changes are a regular and normal response of thebody to external stressors. The question involved with altitude changesbecomes what happens when the normal responses ...

(14 pages) 116 0 4.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

THE EFFECTS OF ALTITUDE ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY

es is the diminished ability to obtainoxygen from the atmosphere. If the adaptive responses to this stressor areinadequate the performance of body systems may decline dramatically. Ifprolonged the res ... lood intocapillaries. All of these changes are a regular and normal response of thebody to external stressors. The question involved with altitude changesbecomes what happens when the normal responses ...

(14 pages) 101 0 3.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Organizational Behavior: a discipline for discovery This paper is a support paper for Organizational Behavior. It outlines the benefits of the discipline.

l Life Insurance shows that at least one out of every four employees views their job as the biggest stressor in their lives (Work, stress and health conference, 1999). Clearly it is time to reevaluate ...

(5 pages) 831 3 4.2 Dec/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Stress

deprivation, pain, fright, and other emotional stresses" (2, 728). After the brain has detected the stressor, a process commonly called the "fight-or-flight response" begins, preparing the body to dea ... process commonly called the "fight-or-flight response" begins, preparing the body to deal with the stressor (2,729). The first stage is the alarm reaction. Hormones are released by the adrenal glands ...

(2 pages) 183 0 4.6 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

The causative role of stress in depression: Gender diffences.

hows that a wide range of psychological disorders result from the impact of an environmental event (stressor/stress factor) on a person who had a predisposing vulnerability [2].Fig. 1. Diathesis stres ...

(22 pages) 418 0 4.1 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

To what extent does research support a link between stress and the immune system?

me (GAS) was carried out by Selye who put rats under enormous stress to assess their responses. The stressors they were exposed to were bacterial infection, toxins, physical restraint and extreme heat ... tage, Resistance Stage, and Exhaustion Stage. The Alarm reaction stage makes the ANS respond to the stressor. The Resistance Stage is when all alarm systems are a full capacity so the parasympathetic ...

(3 pages) 73 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

Cartwright Interactive Simulation

er, I am responsible for the amicable resolution of this and other issues.Recognizing the different stressors within the organization and providing guidance for recommendations or solutions. I have ex ... with stress before it becomes a major issue, so a budget has been allocated to address the various stressors around the organization and implementing solutions. This budget includes funding for both ...

(2 pages) 314 0 4.7 May/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Pschosocial Context Of Health

nd psychological changes. A differentiation is made between an external or environmental situation (stressor) and the response of an individual to that stressor. Researchers have also differentiated b ... is also seen as a mediating factor. Stoney et al (1987) suggests that men react more strenuously to stressors than do women.Different coping styles can have positive or negative effects upon a person ...

(13 pages) 75 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Suicide

pain. No one commits suicide out of joy; it is always mental and eventually intolerable. The common stressor in suicide is frustrated psychological needs. Many suicidal people belief they have specifi ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 Jun/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Overcoming Anxiety

e categories. And, most of the time, the person is dealing with some source of internal conflict or stressor that is not being successfully dealt with. Many books you will read and many questionnaires ...

(2 pages) 17 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Borderline Personality Disorder Within the Adult Population: A Brief Overview

adaptive behavior, but they also develop maladaptive strategies in order to cope with the immediate stressor. Unfortunately, these behaviors perpetuate and result in emotional dysregulation (Nelson-Gr ...

(13 pages) 85 1 5.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

External Effects on Workplace Health and Safety

ed in the near future typically cause it. It is considered to be short term and disappears once the stressor is over. Chronic stress however can have its effect over a longer period of time, taking it ... mance, (Dirscoll and Beehr, 1994).Job stress or stress originates from a number of sources named as stressors which can have any of the origin including, family, living place, school, working environm ...

(3 pages) 17 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

Stress Assesment

he following paper details how the writer scored and how well the writer is doing compared to those stressors. The overall purpose of this paper is to identify with the score and make recommendations ... writer that could be changed regarding the situations and interventions to reduce the affect of the stressors. Different solutions that have been successful for the writer will also be introduced. Str ...

(3 pages) 58 0 5.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Critical Observation

daily basis, acts of profanity and mild tantrums, brought about by many reasons with no individual stressor. These can be as simple as a coworker’s loss of ability to focus or a violent fit of r ... t seems most are stress related with a resolution or a coping mechanism soon following the act. The stressors are factors such as a coworker, job knowledge and problems, or trouble with tools and tech ...

(4 pages) 31 0 4.3 Jan/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

re of PSTD is the development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor. This can be a direct personal experience which involves actual or threatened death or seri ... erienced which then creates intense feelings of fear, helplessness or horror. Examples of traumatic stressors can include, but are not limited to, plane crashes, sexual assault and rape, war, terroris ...

(18 pages) 182 0 0.0 Jul/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Case Study: Response To Illness

y be experiencing by evaluating internal and external factors, internal, external and interpersonal stressor that may cause anxiety and stress and the nursing interventions that may be appropriate for ... in homeostasis of a healthy individual. When ill, factors like internal, external and interpersonal stressors affect the individual and the family system. The nurse plays an important role in helping ...

(9 pages) 17 0 0.0 Sep/2011

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness