CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES OF STRESS

PRESENTED BY-ANJALI RAIROLL NO.-07MPMIR 4th SEMESTER

STRESS

•Derived from Latin word “stringere”

•Optimum level of stress is necessary for good performance

•Selye(1956) GAS:AlarmResistanceCollapse

CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES

STIMULUS PERSPECTIVE

RESPONSE PERSPECTIVE

TRANSACTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

STIMULUS PERSPECTIVE

• Environmental situations as new, rapid changing, sudden, demanding...

• External stressor gives rise to stress reaction, or strain within the individual(Cox, 1978)

• Social situations which require the focal person to make excessive adoptive effort

• 8 types of stressful situation(Weitz)- speeded information processing, noxious environmental

stimuli, perceived threat, disrupted psychological function, isolation, confinement, frustration, group pressure, blocking

RESPONSE PERSPECTIVE

• The way in which the individual handles the perceived stressors-the defences it

mobilizes and the alarm reactions ignited

• STRESS –an imbalance between the requirements to make an adoptive response and the repertoire of the focal person

• “Stress is the non-specific response of the body to any demand made upon it”-Selye(1966)

TRANSACTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

• Transaction between the person and his environment• Demand to which there are no readily available adaptive responses

• Cognitive appraisal • Coping responses

• “Stressfulness of stimulus exposure or event is dependent upon the pattern of stimulus-organism interaction in a particular time and a particular place”-Appley & Trumbell

STRESS=CAD>CAS

STAGES OF STRESS

• Perception of noxious, problematic, demanding situation

• Cognitive appraisal

• State of emotional disequilibrium followed by psycho-physiological and bio-chemical responses

• Adoptive or coping efforts

STRESS

STRESS is Deviant psycho-physiological state of the individual resulted from a situation cognitively appraised as excessively demanding and requiring the focal person to make some adoptive efforts to cope with it.”

CONCLUSION

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