...Topic: Stress Environmental Stresses Environmental Stresses and its Effects Environmental Stresses and its Psychosocial Effects TITLE: ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES AND THEIR PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS Thesis Statement: The hyper exploitation of natural resources in conjunction with natural disasters provokes stress on the environment, which result in harmful psychosocial effects like social withdrawal and depression. Guide Questions 1. What are the pressures that can cause environmental stress? 2. What are the natural events of the environment and how can these cause stress? 3. Are social withdrawal and depression the psychosocial effects of the mentioned environmental stressors? What are the symptoms of one being affected by these? Topic Outline ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES AND THEIR PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS Thesis Statement: The hyper exploitation of natural resources in conjunction with natural disasters provokes stress on the environment, which result in harmful psychosocial effects like social withdrawal and depression. Introduction: Environmental Stress Body: I. Pressures on the environment A. Population B. Noise II. Natural Events A. Natural Disasters III. Psychosocial Effects A. Social Withdrawal B. Depression IV. Symptoms of Environmental Stress A. Headache B. Suicidal intentions C. Panic Attack D. Feeling of helplessness E. Change in one’s mood Conclusion: knowing and understanding environmental...
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...DISCUSSION / ANALYSIS OF FINDINGS 3.2.1 SECTION A: LEVEL OF WORK 3.2.2 SECTION B: EMOTIONAL ASPECTS 3.2.3 SECTION C: PHYSICAL ASPECTS 3.2.4 SECTION D: SOCIAL / WORKING ENVIRONMENT ASPECTS CHAPTER FOUR 4.0 CONCLUSION 4.1 OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY CHAPTER FIVE 5.0 RECOMMENDATION 4.1 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH REFERENCES APPENDIXES CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Stress is body's way of responding to any kind of demand. It can be caused by both good and bad experiences. When people feel stressed by something going on around them, their bodies react by releasing chemicals into the blood. These chemicals give people more energy and strength, which can be a good thing if their stress is caused by physical danger. But this can also be a bad thing, if their stress is in response to something emotional and there is no outlet for this extra energy and strength. The Collins English Dictionary (2000) defines stress as, “…emotional or physical strain or tension”. Stress can also be explained as the result of any emotional, physical, social, economic, or other factors that require a response or change. According to Robbins (2001:563) stress is, “…a dynamic condition in which...
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...Across history, homosexuality has been shunned by societies all around the world. Only up until very recently has the idea of homosexuality become a bit more accepted and deemed “normal” than from the past. Despite this, homosexuals still suffer immensely in many aspects such as stress and discrimination. One of the most prevalent things homosexuals suffer from is mental health issues. Findings from a study that was conducted in Norway, gave evidence that homosexuals suffer from more mental health problems such as substance use disorders, mood disorders, and suicide than heterosexuals (Cochran, 2001). Why are mental health issues so prevalent amongst the homosexual community? What is the reason homosexuals suffer from psychological issues?...
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...This assignment is based upon stress, the bio-psychosocial approach on how stress can affect health, well-being and the maintenance of homeostasis. There are many definitions of stress but the majority of definitions put emphasis on the relationship between the individual and the environment. This is called the bio-psychosocial approach. When treating patients the Practitioner should take a more holistic approach when determining the type of treatment that is required, this would include taking into account the patients lifestyle, environment and social support. The World Health Organisation states that ‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. (WHO 1948). Stress can be defined as any type of change that causes physical, emotional or psychological strain. However, there are many types of stress and not all types of stress are harmful or negative. One theory is that stress is the result of a persons appraisal process. The assessment of whether personal resources are sufficient to meet the demands of the environment. Stress has been identified as being the individuals ability to adapt to the environment (Lazarus and Folkman 1984; Lazarus and Launer 1978; Pervin 1989). There are two types of stress response which Lazarus (1966) made a distinction between, these are psychological and physiological stress. Lazarus stated that physiological stress is a response to a physical damage already incurred...
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...Impact Factor : 4.618(Morocco) JOB STRESS OF EXECUTIVE LEVEL EMPLOYEES: CASE OF APPAREL SECTOR IN SRI LANKA 1 Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka Jayarathna, S. M. D. Y1 2 O MAS Intimates, Sri Lanka Rathnayake, L. R2 ABSTRACT ver the years,there has been a significant concentration on recognition and managing job stress as an important organizational problem. With this identification, organizations have enhanced their awareness towards this problem, as job stress contributes to a significant portion of health care cost, absenteeism, and turnover consequently reduces the employee performance and leads to productivity losses. The purpose of this study is to investigate the job stress level of executive employees. The data were collected from 88 employees of apparel sector manufacturing organizations in Sri Lanka. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire, which comprised of standard measures with five dimensions. They are working environment and communication, work/home conflict and social life, administration and goal achievement, problems with subordinates, and demands from subordinates and others. The level job stress of the respondents was measure by the measure developed by Rout, Cooper, and Rout, (1996 cited in Rout 1999). The results shows that the executive level employees experience stress in any given situation while they...
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...Cause and Effects of Stress in Children Stress is a response to a factor or situation that negatively affects the physical, emotional, or psychological existence of a person. Stress is good in small quantities as it motivates a person making him/her more productive. However, too much stress is detrimental to a person. Stress can interfere with the general life of a person. Most people assume that stress only affects adults. However, statistics indicate that stress also affects children. Children face intense pressure from their environment. Continuous stress in children is harmful to their activities, health, and development. There are a number of causes and effects of toxic stress in children. Stress can be caused by both negative and positive situations. Children living in abusive environments, both physical and emotional, experience stress. Arnold wrote that children who are bullied are in continuous state of depression. They, therefore, alienate themselves from their colleagues. Parents who constantly beat their children are also causes of stress. The fear that is manifested in children disorients them. They will not be able to talk about what they feel to anybody but rather keep to themselves. Events such as accidents, loss of loved ones, and rejection are also causes of stress in children. Social change patterns in children cause many stressful situations. Children at puberty yearn for freedom. This creates tension between them and the parents, who are constantly monitoring...
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...Differences and Social Work Intervention in China Introduction Professional activity is one of the most important human activities in modern society; its effects permeate all areas of personal, family and social life. As China's market economy development and social transformation, and increasingly fierce competition in the labor market, unemployment and the rising threat of job flows down, various pressures caused by occupational activities are turned into a widespread social phenomenon. Social development is sustainable, inappropriate occupational stress is not only not conducive to human physical and mental health, family harmony, organizational effectiveness, from a long-term point of view to harmonious and sustainable economic and social development will have a negative impact. Occupational stress mechanisms, manifestations and reaction of certain differences exist in different populations. From a gender perspective, we can see that female occupational stress problem is very prominent. Thus, gender differences in occupational stress is becoming a psychology, sociology, economics, management, organizational behavior, and other subjects of concern to many disciplines. In view of this, angles of social work, this paper, combined with the gender difference in occupational stress survey data, create female occupational stress management and mitigation of social work intervention mechanisms with a view to achieving ease female occupational stress and effective stress management. ...
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...How Work-Stress Effects the Employee Todd Smith BUS642: Business Research Methods & Tools Ruizhen Hardin October 15, 2012 Introduction It is almost inevitable to experience stress in the workplace, regardless of what organization or industry an individual works in. Through history, the presence of stress has always been a reality that once must face in the workforce. However, with the current state of economy stress in the workplace is a growing concern due to employees facing increased conditions of overwork, decreased levels of job satisfaction, harsh work environments, job insecurity, and lack of self-sufficiency. In many organizations, employees as well as management are not completely clear about what their roles are in the organization, which ultimately leads to increased levels of stress. There have also been research and studies conducted that indicates that even with high levels of stress in the workplace, it actually exerts better performance in employees. In addition these studies also indicate that stress is actually needed in the workplace to increase levels of performance. Considering the implications of these studies, it is important to explore a hypothesis on how causes of work stress has an effect on motivation and job performance. This hypothesis is crucial in confirming that stress in the workplace has more of a negative impact on employees. Contributes to much health related issues. General Causes of Stress ...
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...Sources of stress among college students Amina Iftikhar M.Phil Kinnaird College for women Lahore Abstract: The present study is conducted to investigate the sources of stress among college students. The hypothesis “determines what sources of stress are the most prevalent among college students, and to examine the nature of these stressors.” The manifest anxiety scale was used to obtain the scores of male and female students. The sample consists of 100 students 50 males and 50 females from different colleges of Lahore. Data was gathered from Queen Mary College Lahore, Kinnaird College Lahore, Forman Christen College Lahore, and Punjab College Lahore. In Western countries the vast amount of researches has been conducted on this issue. More researches are needed to investigate the nature of theses stressors for college students and which stressors are most prevalent in college lives. However these researches are not applicable in Pakistan due to cultural, economic, and educational variations. The main objective of current research work was to study the sources of stress among college students. The research used to determine the major sources of stress among college students and also find out the most prevalent stressor in college life and study the nature of these stressors. The Taylor manifest anxiety scale was used Anxiety scale was originally designed by Taylor (1895-1953). The scale is used to identify subjects with high and low anxiety level. In order to study the affects...
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...Introduction Adolescent Stress- brought on by numerous life changing events; how is it viewed and how can it be managed? Research shows that stress can be encountered through various Medias of life such as, family, work, school, social environments, and relationships (Durnam, M, Class notes, 2014). This research study will focus on what events induce stress (cognitive appraisals), how a persons’ environment influences stress (social support), including what means the individual takes to manage stress (coping skills). According to Watson, Ojeda, Castellon, & Dornhecker (2013), research on Mexican-American adolescents focus on mental health outcomes, such as depression, suicide, delinquencies, and substance abuse in regards to stress; however, as a positive aspect on these matters, researchers are taking a different view point of culturally relevant research and theory to a more resilient view point. The purpose of the study is to determine how cognitive appraisals, social support, and coping skills are influences by stress. Thus inducing depression, suicidal tendencies, delinquencies, and substance abuse from an onset of stressful events. From these events two primary objectives are: 1. what systems can adolescents use to help decrease stress, and 2. and what types of program(s) can be developed to assist adolescents with reducing stress. Questions The objectives are linked with the following questions, in that they will determined what stress factors adolescents encounter...
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...motivation usually as a result of prolonged stress or frustration” (Merriam-Dictionary, 2011). Describe individual, cultural, organizational, supervisory, and social support factors that cause burnout Individual factors Burnout in an individual can happen at different times to different people. A few factors that can contribute to burnout are a person’s upbringing, expectations, or personalities. One of the worst insults to believe would be to think you are useless and lesser than others. An individual can put too much on him or herself by setting unrealistic career goals and without any sense of direction disturbed emotions evolve, and increased tendency to think negatively increase. As a result they start to become the person others want him or her to be. Cultural An example of cultural burnout could be moving into an unfamiliar culture. Different cultures might not understand the cultural differences of certain communities. Developing skills to adapt to someone else’s customs can be challenging and stressful. The perceptions of others play a vital role for many, especially when we experience a diminishing sense of community. Our goal to fit into a competitive environment can be frustrating, particularly if faced with one’s potential of work. Organizational Stress can influence many stages of daily life and is very dominant in the job force. Many factors can have emotional strain on the physical layout of the environment, tedious or dull tasks and duties, confusion...
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...Personality PSY/ 250 April 06, 2011 Behavioral and Social/ Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits Current is only one behavior that comes to mind that every person experiences at some point or another in his or her lives. Financial stress is a behavior that negatively affects a person’s mindset and only pushes the victim further down the spiral. Some people have found ways to cope with stress while others struggle with it on a daily basis. There are several therapy theories that one can approach in order to deal with stress, but the tactic one will like to focus on is the cognitive behavioral therapy. In order to understand how one can accomplish this, one needs to understand what exactly the cognitive behavioral theory is. The thought behind the behavioral approach is that the environment we are in causes us to react differently, explaining behavior through observation. The behavioral approach is conflict by the social approach, which believes in learning through the observation of others. In this paper, one will analyze one of my habits. How did one develop this habit? One will also develop a plan on how to change this habit, one will discuss the behavior of social/cognitive theories, and which one does one find best to explain ones personality. Financial stress is sadly a widespread experience. One realizes money allows one to live comfortable and is the only way one can survive in this world. The financial stress arises when the price of food cost of gas, the mortgage...
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...behavioral factors and social and physical environments (Longest, 2006). Moreover, there are many factors that indicate what health status in that certain area. The Institute of Medicine (IOM, 2001) deemed health as more than the absence of disease and injury, also Nursing agreed with this organic definition . The IOM (2001) implements the idea of "positive health" thus attached are four components: a healthy body, high-quality personal relationships, a sense of purpose in life, and resilience to stress, trauma, and change. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as physical, mental, and social well-being (WHO &UNICEF, 1978). The Determinants of Health There are a many factors that determine what health an certain area is within a society. Thus a society would know what health polices to enforce when certain determinants are recognize. So, below there will be a brief elaboration on some influential factors. Social Environment It’s evident that extreme stress or burn out can caused a person to become unhealthy. It’s apparent that some stress is natural and necessary such as a women giving birth, she has to experience some level of stress during the delivery process. Another example could be a person suffering from depression thus she or he also, will deal with pain or exhaustion .The depression could be caused by a social issues such as poverty or non- active social life. Are there available resources in his or her social environment? Is it a matter of...
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...rates, accidents, and so on. This paper will define burnout and describe some of the individual, cultural, organizational, and social support factors that cause burnout. The paper provides an explanation of various individual, job role, and organizational methods to prevent burnout. In this paper I have shared the ways I react and respond to personal and work related stress as well as my reaction to combat the effects of burnout. Lastly this paper discussed how human service managers assist with staff burnout. Define Burnout According to help guide (2012,” Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands”. As the stress continues it causes you to lose interest or motivation I your work role. Individual, Cultural, Organizational, Supervisory, & Social Support Causes of Burnout Human service professionals may become overwhelmed and stressed especially when dealing with large case loads, overtime, and balancing work and home duties. Some of the personal lifestyle stressors include insufficient sleep, little or no time off, lack of social supports, and so on. Cultural factors contributing to burnout would be declined feeling of community, pervasive competition, and frustrated expectations. Supervisory and social support factors may be caused by lack of participation in decision making. The organizational factors may include unclear requirements...
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...Group Outline General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform our audience that stress is a consistent problem amongst Purdue students, the dangers of stress, and how to cope with stress. Thesis Statement: Right now, the factors of stress play a big role at Purdue University and causes stress to a majority of the student population. Many students spend hours upon hours doing homework and studying for exams. The rigorous curriculum, demanding social life, and psychological issues create an environment that causes students to experience extreme stress. Providing tips and advice on how to deal with stress could potentially help solve the problem of stress on Purdue University campus. INTRODUCTION: Attention Getter: Palo Alto, California is home to one of the most prestigious and competitive school districts in the country, which is located near Stanford University. The school district is made up of twelve primary schools, three middle schools and two high schools. Since 2009, there have been 4 reported student suicides due to the intense school environment and rigorous workload. The domino effect of suicides started in particular with high schooler Jean-Paul Blanchard. Jean-Paul was known for his kindness, compassion, and social skills. He worked hard to keep a balance between school work, his social life, and mental health but it became too much for him to handle. He needed a break and had trouble finding a proper escape, which caused him to jump in front of...
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