...which are the child's characteristics and behaviors towards the parents, and lastly background sources of stress and support in which the infant and child relationship is formed. (Respler-Herman, Mowder, Yasik, Shamah, 2012). When raising a family there can be occasionally be issues of financial support with adults and this can cause an abundant amount of stress of an adult. Financial stress can be targeted to many adults that are in the process of establishing themselves in an independent world. This can be extremely stressful for an adult that has many financial responsibilities that can be overwhelming for an individual in troubling times. During these overwhelming times of financial stress it is truly important that an adult must keep...
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...Reducing Stress in Young Adults with Burn Injuries Student ID #: 1358437 University of Alberta Reducing Stress in Young Adults with Burn Injuries Burn injuries affecting young adults (20-39 years old) can negatively affect their physical, emotional and psychological health, specifically creating stress. To achieve optimal health and equilibrium in the body, the body utilizes different mechanisms to ensure that it compensates and restores its function (Day et al., 2010). However, external or internal factors caused by stress can affect this equilibrium. According to Day et al (2010., p. 94) stress is “a state produced by a change in the environment that is perceived as challenging, threatening or damaging to a person’s dynamic balance or equilibrium”. When the body responds to stress it is trying to protect itself and stress can even help young adults in being more productive, energetic and focused (Potter & Perry., 2010). However, if an individual is not able to cope with the stress then the changes in their state can physiologically, biologically and emotionally affect...
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...TITLE: Speech on Three Challenges Young Adults Face INTRODUCTION Today, I want to explain some challenges that affect young adults which if left on detected can cause serious harm not even death. Three main challenges I feel that affect young adults health complications, depression, and suicide. In today’s young adults they are serious issues that go undetected to parents faculty and other family members and friends. Many young adults are faced with the pressure of being the top senior, honor student, best older brother and many times most popular with awesome grades. These things can be very difficult to meet and young adults can go to great lengths to make everyone around them happy and not disappoint anyone. BODY (One challenge of young adults is health complications.) Firstly, as we know young adults inherit many conditions because of their parents’ genes, but that is not the only factor. Stress has been known for many years as the “catalyst of diseases”. Stress weakens the body, causes organs to work less or harder, and prevents sleep, inhibiting the body from resting and healing itself. Many times young adults take medications not prescribed in order to assist with their performance and achieve the high expectations they have for themselves and others. Illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes are the most commonly stress related. High Blood Pressure, Heart Attacks, High Cholesterol, Poor Blood Circulation, Anxiety, Insomnia, Headaches...
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...Psychosocial variables and self-rated health in young adult obese women Mary Jane Smith, PhD, RN a,⁎, Laurie Theeke, PhD, FNP-BC a, 1, Stacey Culp, PhD a, 2, Karen Clark, MD b, 3, Susan Pinto, MSN, RN a, 4 a b WVU School of Nursing, PO Box 9600, Health Sciences Center South, Morgantown, WV 26506-9600 School of Medicine, Student Health Services, PO Box 9247, Health Sciences Center South, Morgantown, WV 26506-9247 a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 10 October 2013 Revised 4 November 2013 Accepted 4 November 2013 Keywords: Obesity Self-rated health Stress Loneliness Self-esteem a b s t r a c t Aim: The aim of this study is to describe relationships among self-rated health, stress, sleep quality, loneliness, and self-esteem, in obese young adult women. Background: Obesity has steadily increased among young adults and is a major predictor of self-rated health. Methods: A sample of 68 obese (BMI 30 or higher, mean 35), young (18–34 years, mean 22) adult women were recruited from a health center. Survey data were gathered and analyzed using descriptive and bivariate procedures to assess relationships and group differences. Results: Scores reflected stress, loneliness, poor sleep quality, and poor self-esteem. There were positive correlations among stress, loneliness, and sleep quality and, a high inverse correlation between loneliness and self-esteem. Those who ranked their health as poor differed on stress, loneliness, and self-esteem when compared...
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... Should the Legal Drinking Age Be Changed Back to Eighteen? The debate on the legal drinking age has been going on for many years. More mature adults say that the minimum legal drinking age should be kept at twenty-one. Young adults say that the minimum legal drinking age should be changed back to eighteen. There are many reasons that go behind the opinions of each. People believe that since the age of eighteen is the legal adult age in the United States of America that young adults should be able to make their own decisions on the consumptions of alcohol. Teens are still able to get alcohol due to parents, older siblings, friends, and other family members. Also, allowing eighteen to twenty year-olds to drink alcohol under supervision should lower the issue of underage drinking, and it will be good for the economy too. However, there are a lot of consequences that come with drinking at a younger age, such as eighteen year-olds have lower maturity than twenty-one year olds. Therefore, eighteens year-olds are more likely to get into negative alcohol and alcohol-related outcomes. With taking all opinions into consideration, you can see why this has been an ongoing debate on whether the minimum legal drinking age should be changed back to eighteen year-olds. I believe the debate should conclude on the prevision of allowing young adults to have the ability to make their own decisions upon alcohol consumption. Drew Saylor noted the effectiveness of the minimum legal drinking age...
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...Research Article Effects of stress on health and aging: Two paradoxes Authors Carolyn Aldwin, Oregon State University Loriena A. Yancura, University of Hawai'i Publication Information California Agriculture 64(4):183-188. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v064n04p183. October-December 2010. Author Affiliations C.M. Aldwin is Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oregon State University, Manoa. L.A. Yancura is Associate Professor, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Abstract Although older adults are thought to experience more stress and to be more vulnerable to its adverse effects, they often report less stress than younger adults and sometimes show more resilience. Paradoxically, while stress sometimes has long-term positive effects on well-being, studies differ as to whether this increases or decreases with age. We conclude that older individuals have learned to appraise and cope differently with stress. This protects them in spite of their increased physiological vulnerability and may also increase the possibility of stress-related growth and optimal aging. Full Text [View Enlargement] As people age their health trajectories tend to diverge, with some developing multiple chronic conditions and others maintaining good health; stress may play a role in this aspect of aging. Over the past century, remarkable changes have occurred in the life expectancy and quality of life of older adults. Individuals born in the...
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...traditions, authority and role modeling. Critiquing of research is an important part of nursing process and should be done throughout the career. As a research group, we performed a critique and review on a study looking at psychosocial variables among obese women. Research Problem and Purpose Smith, Theeke, Culp, Clark and Pinto conducted a quantitative study to look at the relationships among psychosocial variables and obesity (2014). According to Smith et al., the problem statement is “the psychosocial variables of perceived stress, sleep quality, loneliness and self-esteem have not been studies as a cluster of variables in a sample of young adult women with a BMI>30” (2014, p. 67). “The purpose of this study was to describe relationships among psychosocial variables and self-rated health status in a sample of obese young adult women” (Smith et al., 2014, p. 67). This study is significant and relevant to nursing because a majority of young adults in our generation are obese. This article focuses on psychosocial factors that may be...
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...Declaration of Independence From Being a Teenager Preamble: When in the course of teenage events, it becomes necessary for young adults to dissolve their relations from childhood to adulthood. We the teenagers, who range thirteen to nineteen years of age, are treated as children but held to the same standards as adults. We should be treated and respected as though we are adults since we posses the same responsibilities. Teachers, parents, and guardians expect a great plethora of success from our performances. This has resulted in the few years of our lives that should be full of memorable and enjoyable moments and has turned them into a recollection of anxiety and stress. We should have the right to choose to be a part of our many responsibilities such as school, extracurricular activities, and jobs without being pressured to excel based off of high standards and competition within ourselves to prove our intelligence. Truths and Relationships:...
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...education is undeniable important for every single person. All people need to study. For young adults, it is definitely necessary for them to continue their tertiary education either in private colleges or universities after completed secondary education. However, there are quite a number of problems that young adults face in education today, particularly in the aspect of financial situation, pressures of studying and peer pressures. Definitely, financial condition turns out to be a major problem for young adults who wish to pursue their tertiary education in private colleges or universities nowadays. The expenses in such private colleges or universities are usually quite big in number because those expenses include tuition fees, resource fees, and examination fees and so on. For some young adults, they come from weaker sections of the society and the financial situation of their house is not good enough. If a young adult is not financially equipped, it may obstruct his or her study. Furthermore, some young adults who are already studying in colleges or universities might also need to do a part time job for their own pocket money. In such situation, they have to divide their time properly so that they can balance up their work and studies. Otherwise, they may not be able to concentrate in their study and fail in some particular subjects. In short, financial condition is one of the problems young adults face in education nowadays. College life is often a stressful time. Nowadays college...
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...Nowadays stress is one of the most know words. Since many years ago, the effects of stress are still being present in our daily life, causing many social problems and health diseases among young and adult people. One of the most dangerous effects is the excess of cortisone in our blood. Cortisone increases the risk of having a heart attack, your behavior, causes that you can’t sleep, and even worst get older. As a result of that situation, doctors say that cortisone is killing more people than many other diseases. Another effect of being stressed is the constant change in people’s behavior. Even if you don’t have, or have noticed it, many or most of your daily life problems are caused because of the stress. Actually, as a result of this, more young people are dying of stress effects than ever before. So, if you have been asking yourself why your behavior changes suddenly and also your school or work performance, stress could be the answer. In addition, another important problem as a result of the constantly changes in the behavior, our stress can even affect your family creating conflicts, lack of communication, fights and many others family issues, because when people get into a stressful situation their behavior change a lot and becomes violent, easily angry, and even their thoughts change in a negative way. To conclude, stress is a huge social problem in our modern and crowded cities, among young and adult people. Also this problem is affecting our families and...
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...Challenges Young Adults Face Today Being a young adult today has many difficult stages of life that can be quite challenging, even under the best circumstances. During puberty, young people are invaded by a series of new emotions and feelings. Daily pressures faced by teachers and peers. They are exposed to the heavy influence of television, film, music and the Internet. Hence, a United Nations report defines adolescence as "a period of transition that is often characterized by stress and anxiety." Today, young people looking for a quick solution to their problems, for example in drug addiction, prostitution, euthanasia, bullying, suicide, among others. In this case drugs affect our body, losing their logical thinking , and making the forget all those problems that have been disturbing them. Sometimes they just have influences that affect a person for lack of will and likewise assessed, fall into the same temptation of drugs, both legal and illegal like. There are people who have everything but if they lack love and security they seek this out, or just out of curiosity mind and then create a rollercoaster of a problem. Drug addiction is a touchy subject, because many people go so far as to sell everything they have and leave everything for a single dose of what make them happy, drugs. The only treatment to come out of this is the support from hi/hers family and most of all depending on thee person who is at the moment with this addiction has the willpower to go to rehab...
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...Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and everyday living. It is hardwired into our brain and is our bodies’ normal response to “fight or flight”, which prepares us to act in the event of danger. It also prepares us to act in uncertain situations, trouble, or feeling unprepared. It is normal to feel certain anxiousness when these situations arise. However, when everyday life events cause a person to become increasingly anxious or have panic attacks, which interfere with daily living, a person may have an anxiety disorder (Active Minds, 2015). Anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental illnesses and affect 25 percent of all teens and 30 percent of all teen girls (Elements Behavioral Health). Research indicates that over the last 50-70 years the rates of anxiety among teenagers and young adults in America have been steadily increasing (Bass, 2015). This article has information on the rise in teen anxiety, statistics, and the possible causes for the rise in anxiety. Teens Now and Then It appears in nearly every research article read that teens today are experiencing greater anxiety than the teens of 20, 30, 40 years ago. In fact, rates of anxiety and depression among young adults were far lower even during the Great Depression, during WWII, the Cold War, and the 60’s and 70’s than they are for teens today (Bass, 2015). The results are almost startling and alarming. Some statistics find that five to eight times as many high school and college students meet...
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...difference between the arousals that REM sleep causes for men and women, there is another differences between young adults and the elderly. Young adults usually experience it for more then half of their sleep cycle whereas the elderly only experience it for a quarter of their sleep cycle and if the elderly do experience an arousal, it tends to awaken them from their sleep. 1c. Researchers tend to examine awakened and relaxed people to observe their alpha waves, which with high amplitudes that are fast. When a person begins to fall asleep, the first set of waves that the researchers study are the, theta waves. These waves have an even higher amplitude then the alpha waves. However, their frequency is much slower. Sleep spindles and K complexes are when the EEG waves all of sudden increase in their frequency and their amplitude. After this stage, you convert into the delta waves that come from stages three and...
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...as drugs, alcohol, and prescription drugs are a growing problem in rural communities due to stress, peer pressure and chronic pain. Studies have reported that individuals exposed to stress are more likely to abuse alcohol and other drugs or undergo relapse (National Institute on Drug Abuse, n.d.). It is well established that the effects of stress can damage people’s mental and physical health. Not everyone deals with stress in the same way, where as some people have an inability to deal with it effectively. One of the ways that the individual may attempt to manage their stress is by using alcohol or drugs. This type of self-medication can provide temporary relief, but is ultimately self-defeating. It can mean that the individual will have more stress in their life than ever, but they will have even less of an ability to handle it. Using drugs, as a short-term solution to the stress going on in their life is dangerous and can lead to addiction. Stress can be caused by the loss of job, divorce, death of a loved one or many other numerous situations. Stress is a major factor and is one of the leading causes of drug abuse. Teenagers and young adult face peer pressure, which results in the raise in substance abuse within this age bracket. Experimental drug use, usually involves peers where the users may enjoy defying parents or other authority figures. Teenagers and young adult become bored and...
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...evaluated the pros and cons to social relationships and how it affects the standard of living for individuals. The authors included evidence shows that involvement in social relationships benefits health. Some studies they conducted comes from prospective studies of mortality across industrialized nations. House, Landis and Emberson conducted a social experiment and found that these studies consistently show that individuals with the lowest level of involvement in social relationships are more likely to die than those with greater involvement). For example, Berkman and Syme showed that the risk of death among men and women with the fewest social ties was more than twice as high as the risk for adults with the most social ties. Social ties has also been proven to reduce mortality rates among adults with medical conditions. For instance, several recent review articles provide consistent and compelling evidence linking a low quantity or quality of social ties with a host of conditions, including development and progression of cardiovascular disease, recurrent myocardial infarction, atherosclerosis, autonomic dysregulation, high blood pressure, cancer and delayed cancer recovery, and slower wound healing (Ertel, Glymour, and Berkman 2009; Everson-Rose and Lewis 2005; Robles and Kiecolt-Glaser 2003; Uchino 2006). Although there are...
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