3. Meeting Life Challenges
Understanding stress involves recognizing its nature, types, and sources, along with the effects on psychological functioning. Effective coping mechanisms and life skills are essential for managing stress, promoting positive health, and overall well-being. The chapter emphasizes the interplay between stress, health, and coping strategies that can enhance resilience.
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What we have learnt
- Stress is a dynamic process involving a transaction between the individual and the environment.
- There are various types of stress: physical, environmental, psychological, and social, each having unique sources and consequences.
- Healthy lifestyle choices, coping mechanisms, and life skills like assertiveness and time management can effectively mitigate stress.
Key Concepts
- -- Stress
- An ongoing transactional process between the individual and their environment, involving psychological and physiological responses.
- -- Eustress
- Positive stress that motivates individuals and leads to peak performance.
- -- Resilience
- The capacity to maintain positive adjustment under challenging conditions, reflecting self-worth and coping abilities.
- -- General Adaptation Syndrome
- A model describing the body's response to stress in three stages: alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion.
- -- Coping Strategies
- Techniques used to manage stress, which can be problem-focused or emotion-focused.
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