...Stress is a huge factor in many people's lives as we face day to day activities and things that go wrong. How we handle them is essential for our health and well-being. We all face stress, sometimes more than others, but it is how we handle the stress when it happens is how it will affect us internally and externally. The large life stress factors that really affect us is losing our job or losing a loved one, or even the worrying of losing your house and everything you own from losing your job. When the day to day small activities like being stuck in a traffic jam, or taking on someone else's problem as our own, are things that we can avoid the stress levels that will hurt us not only mentally exhaust us, but also internally tearing down our body. Have you ever seen people in high stressed jobs, like trading, they are always sick and the turnover is high; the reason being is they eventually burn themselves out on all the stress. The reason they are always sick is that the stress is affecting our lymphocytes which protect us from getting sick. Stress also affects the way our bodies disperse cortisol, our fat and also our moods and how we react. Being overly stressed will also take a toll on the way you sleep...
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...Behavior Jodi Feikema 27 April 2016 Stress by book definition is defined to be a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life, work, etc: something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety: physical force or pressure. (Merriam-Webster, 2016) According to McGrath stress is an imprecise term that usually defined in terms of the internal and external conditions that create stressful situations, and the symptoms that people experience when they are stressed. “So there is a potential for stress when an environmental situation is perceived as presenting a demand that threatens to exceed the person’s capabilities and resources for meeting it, under conditions when he expects a substantial differential in the rewards and costs from meeting the demand versus not meeting it.” (McGrath, 1976) His definition implies that the degree of stress is correlated with a person’s perceived inability to deal with an environmental demand. Stress is correlated with a person’s fear in failure. (McGrath 1976) Stress can effect just about anyone in many different ways, there can be allot of stress that is associated with organizational behavior, different people deal or cope with their stress in different ways during work which can determine how that person produces throughout the day. Stress in the work place is very common among people who work for a living; powerlessness is a universal cause of job stress. When a person feels powerless they start to feel helplessness...
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...QUESTIONNAIRE ON “STRESS” RESEARCH PROJECT- Factors of stress among students. Please answer all the question below and tick on the answer provided 6. Have you ever faced stress? □ □ Yes No (I) BIOADATA OF THE STUDENT (II) CAUSES OF STRESS AMONG STUDENT 1. Name: _____________________________________________ 6. If “Yes”, what cause stress to you? (You may thick more than one) □ Family □ Friends □ Studies □ Relationship 2. Age □ □ □ □ 19 until 20 years old 20 until 21 years old 22 until 23 years old 24 years old and above 3. Gender □ □ Male Female 4. Highest level of education □ □ □ □ □ Matric Foundation STPM Diploma Other 5. Course □ □ □ □ □ BBA in Marketing BBA in Accountancy BBA in International Business BBA in Management and Entrepreneurship Other 7. How does family cause stress towards you? □ □ □ □ □ Demanding High expectation Financial problems Control your social life Other (please state it) :_________________________________ 8. How does friends cause stress towards you? □ □ □ □ □ Do not understand you Pressuring you with their problems Do not support you Mock you in front of others Other (please state it) :_________________________________ 9. How does studies cause stress towards you? □ □ □ Loads with assignment and tasks to be complete Too many subject courses to focus on Hardly understand some of the course subject taken □ □ The course subject...
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...topics you choose, make sure to include personal examples, examples from individuals you know, and/or professional athletes in your oral presentation. These examples will serve as evidence for your views. You will have an opportunity to use theory and empirical evidence in an oral presentation at the end of the semester. b. Please note that the questions in the topics are opinion-based and thus there are no “right” or “wrong” answers. Personality: To what extent do you think personality affects athletic performance? How does personality affect athletic performance? Do you believe there are gender differences in personality? Why or why not? Motivation: What are they different motivations (and motivational challenges) that predict success in athletic performance? How can a teacher and/or coach affect motivation? What contextual features and/or personality characteristics affect motivation in athletic performance? Stress and Anxiety: How would you define stress and what are sources of stress in athletic performance? What strategies reduce stress in athletic performance? How can a coach increase/decrease stress? Self-confidence: How would you define self-confidence and how is it related to expectations? What are the sources of self-confidence? How do characteristics of confidence affect athletic performance? What are some strategies for building self-confidence? Attention and Concentration: How would you define “attention” and how does attention affect athletic...
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...The Impact of Stress on Jobs and the Workplace Prepared for: Mr. Glenn Pace Webster University Truman Education Center ------------------------------------------------- Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri ------------------------------------------------- Prepared By: Mrs. Betty Downing 5 March 2012 Introduction: There is an overwhelming concern in today’s society about stress on the job and in the workplace and how that will carry over to a person’s home life. Stress has taken an immense toll on the physical and emotional health of individuals, as well as the bottom lines of organizations (Greenhaus, Callanan, Godshalk, 2010). Stress can be the number one problem for working individuals, many of whom are trying to juggle everything at one time such as home, caring for children or aging family members, and work. The human brain has an inherit response for perceived attacks, harm or threats to ourselves that is known as the “fight or flight” response. With constant stress situations at work an individual will make a decision to either fight or flee the environment. There is no getting around it stress is going to be in the workplace but the issue is determining if the stressor is a positive or negative factor for employees is the matter to be dealt with. Afterwards people need to learn how to manage the stress therefore maximizing their job performance while also being able to preserve both their mental and physical health. What organizations need to start...
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...Date of Birth: Weight: Height: Physical Activity: Do you exercise regularly? (Times in one week) How intense do you train? (Tick a box) Low Moderate High What is the duration of your training? (Tick a box) 1-10mins 11-30mins 31mins and above What is your favourite activity? Running Football Cricket Softball Rugby American Football Basketball Boxing Hockey Any other? (Please state) Nutrition: How often do you eat junk food? (how often with 0 being never and 10 being all the time) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 What is your daily intake of calories? How often do you drink water? Do you eat your five-a-day? Do you record your daily intake of carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals? If so what is your daily intake? Stress: What are the things that cause you stress? How intense is your stress? Low Moderate High Does your stress cause you to focus or falter? How do you control your stress? Does stress affect your diet? Alchohol and Smoking: How often do you drink? How much do smoke in one sitting? Do these affect your personal life? Are you a binge drinker? Why do you drink and/or smoke? (E.g. peer pressure) How much do you spend on them? How often do you smoke? (per day) 1-3 4-7 8-10 11-14 15 and higher Do you consider smoking and/or drinking to be a stress...
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...So, what can actually affect the health of a type D personality person? Can this be changed over short or long a period of time? Where does the type D personality affect people in their life? So let's jump into the topic that I have chosen and figure out some answers to all the questions I have for the type D personalities. Type D (distressed) personality is a diagnosis of a person that has an issue or many issues with both social anxiety disorder and general anxiety disorder. A social anxiety disorder is when you have a fear or phobia of being watched, judged, or criticized by people around them. General anxiety disorder is much more than just a “normal” anxiety disorder that people experience day to day, it is extensive and over exaggerated...
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...detect and handle your stress level My self-assessment tells me about my level of stress that I will have a high risk of becoming ill in the near future. I’m not surprised about my stress level but is surprised about becoming ill in the near future. Not sure if this is something I would want to know what’s in my near future. This kind of information can be stressful itself in knowing what you may be facing due to my stress level. However, it is useful to know about this so that I can take action now to prevent any illness pertaining to my health. Seeing friends and old classmates losing their life to unaware illness is a wake-up call for me. Stress can cause sever health problems and some cases, can cause death. I have no choice but to take this advice regarding my concerns over stress-related illnesses that may occur. Currently, my stress has been causing me significant unhappiness. After reviewing the article discovered by the American Psychological Association how stress affects the body. This article emphasize the musculoskeletal system and how the muscles tense up due to your stress level. Explaining how chronic stress can cause the muscles in your body to be a constant state of guardedness. And dealing with chronic stress seems to also cause many types of headaches including tension in your shoulders and the neck. I never knew millions of people suffers from this type of stress-related pain that affects the body. Not knowingly how it can also affect your breathing especially...
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...Stress and alcohol abuse Chapter 2, “Stress: The Constant Challenge” explains what stress is and the effects it has on our body. It goes through and tells about the physiological responses to stress, including the effects on the nervous and the endocrine system. The chapter also explains the difference ways that stress effects people with varying personalities. We are told, “According to the American Psychological Association 43% of adult Americans suffer from stress related health problems.” (Insel, Rothe P 28) Chapter 8, “Alcohol and Tobacco” explains how alcohol affects people in different ways. It further explains that there are biological reasons for how our bodies absorb and metabolize alcohol. “Drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short time can rapidly raise the BAC into the lethal range. Death from alcohol poisoning may be caused either by central nervous system and respiratory depression or by inhaling fluid or vomit into the lungs.” (Insel, Rothe P 180) Drinking alcohol produces physiological stress and some of the body’s responses to alcohol are similar to its responses to stressors that you already have. Yet people say they drink to relieve stress. This can be compared to a double- edged sword. Stress is stress and it is always going to be there. Very seldom do people have good outcomes when they let their stress turn them to alcohol. Some drink to relieve stress while drinking itself creates stress in one s life. For example: DUI’s, speeding...
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...Research Plan As part of your research plan, you must first draft a research question for your research paper that will guide the rest of your writing. A research question, which is more specific and focused than a general topic, is the question that your research paper will answer. For example, if your general area of interest is social security, a possible research question might ask, “How can low-income families save more money if the United States had a reformed social security plan that includes personal retirement accounts?” As you develop a research question, remember that you need to research sources to support your topic. Do not pick a one-sided question that will limit your research. Instead, develop a research question that lends itself to further exploration and debate—a question you genuinely want to know the answer to. Try to pick a research question that is neither too broad (covering too much) or too narrow (covering too little). It should be broad enough to be discussed in a short research paper. Part 1: Complete the Research Plan |What is your general topic or area of interest? |My general topic or area of interest is the medical disease diabetes. | | | | |What is it about your general topic that interests you? |The way it affects your health and body is what interests me. ...
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...What is post-traumatic stress disorder? What can cause PTSD and how does it affect that individual and the people around them? When the subject of PTSD arises, the “average” persons’ first thoughts of PTSD are combat veterans. The fact of the matter is, PTSD has many ways of rearing its ugly face into society. PTSD is caused when an individual if any situation where they have experienced a tremendous event, whether it be through observation or have experienced the event directly. Examples that may cause post-traumatic stress disorder are: child abuse, child neglect, a physical altercation, sexual molestation, rape, combat exposure and among many other things which can include witnessing a death ( In World of Criminal Justice, Gale, 2002). Although all are serious experiences that can cause PTSD, concentration on this paper will be focused on the cause and effects of the veterans that have been exposed to combat. Combat exposure not only affects the people that are in the military but also the civilians that are directly exposed to combat. What causes post-traumatic stress disorder? The medical community has only recently recognized stress due to combat as PTSD. It did not have a name until the Vietnam War. During World War I, PTSD was called "shell shock" and as "battle fatigue" during World War II. Medical historians described PTSD-like symptoms as "Da Costa’s Syndrome" during the Civil War ( In World of Criminal Justice, Gale, 2002). In combat situations, military veterans...
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...Questionnaire STRESS AND WORKLIFE BALANCE AMONG INDIAN WORKING WOMEN WITH RESPECT TO I.T AND BANKING INDUSTRY. I am Tasnim S. Vohra, doing MBA at S. K Patel Institute of Management studies. As a part of my curriculum, I am doing a project on Stress and Work Life Balance among Indian working women with respect to I.T and Banking industry. For the completion of my project, I would like to gather some information from you. I would be obliged if you co-operate me in filling the questionnaire. Since the questionnaire is being used for academic purpose, the information gathered will be strictly confidential. Personal Information A. Name of company: ________________________________________ B. Age: 20 - 25 yrs [ ] 25-40 yrs [ ] 40 – 60yrs [ ] C. Education: _____________________ D. Marital Status: I) Married ii) Unmarried iii) Widow IV) Divorcee E. If married, Do you have children? Yes / No F. If Yes, Number of children: ______ G. Family type: Joint / Nuclear H. Professional information 1. Number of years of work experience: _________yrs 2. Number of years in present organization: _________yrs I. Level in Management: Junior level ( ) Middle level ( ) Senior level ( ) Please read the following statements and give any one of the scores mentioned below: 1...
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...15 degrees Celsius, the water temperature could have been lower due to the cold air. How does water temperature affect core body temperature? If the water is cold the body will try to conserve heat and keep its homeostasis. If the water is hot the body will try to get rid of heat to keep its homeostasis. Hot tub water was hot at 45 degrees Celsius. Blood vessels will dilate near the surface of the skin. Sweat to cool down the body temperature Did the air temperature have an effect on water temperature? The air was about 15 degrees Celsius which is much colder than the hot tub temperature. So the air temperature would cool the water down. How does the body respond to 45 degrees Celsius? The body sweats to cool down and blood vessels dilate. Therefore lose water How does the body respond to 15 degrees Celsius? Blood vessels contract near surface. Muscles contract (shiver) When would heat stroke occur? Heat stroke occurs when the body over heats. Heat stroke occurs when the core body temperature is greater than 105 degrees Fahrenheit (40.5 degrees Celsius), with complications involving the central nervous system that occur after exposure to high temperatures. Primary hyperthermia (for instance, heatstroke), temperature regulation is either partially or totally out of action. The patient often sweats only a little or not at all, and the skin is flushed red, hot and dry. How could hot temperature have an effect on a person with alcohol consumed? Alcohol interferes...
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...1. Discussion Stress can be define as physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension, and a situation, occurrence, or factor causing this. The word “stress” actually comes from a Latin word meaning, “distress.” Stress affects everybody in the society. Today, more people suffer from stress than ever before. The pace of life is stressful in itself. People expect to manage the major life changes and crises without the network of support that previous generations relied upon. For some, stress may not be related to specific events, but may have developed in early childhood as an anxiety response to difficult situations. This response may have been carried into adult life as the characteristic way of dealing with difficulties. One in every four people seeks treatment for stress at some time in their lives. While some workplace stress is normal, excessive stress can interfere with employees’ productivity and impact employees’ physical and emotional health. Signs of stress can be seen in people's behaviour, especially in changes in behaviour. Signs and symptoms of excessive job and workplace stress are feeling anxious, irritable, or depressed, loss of interest in work, problems sleeping, fatigue, trouble concentrating, muscle tension or headaches, stomach problems, and social withdrawal. Situations that are likely to cause stress are unpredictable or uncontrollable. Stress may be caused by time limited events, such as the pressures of examinations or work deadlines, or by ongoing...
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...Smoking takes a part in every smoker personality. There are some personality characteristics that you can find in every smoker, which affects people psychologically in their life. According to Becoña, Río, López, Piñeiro, and Martínez (2012), “Subjects with paranoid, narcissistic, antisocial, or borderline PDs (Personality Disorder) had a higher probability for being current smokers”. Some people think that smoking actually helps them to improve psychologically in their life, others see smoking as it might damage them by all means, is it really affecting people psychologically positively or negatively?, it’s believed that it actually affects people negatively from every aspect. Some People think that smoking actually helps them to calm down...
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