the smallest things. From minor disagreements, the water dripping, traffic, and other daily annoyances are called hassles. We run into these hassles more often and more frequently than a stressor on a larger scale. Our text book compares major stressors to throwing a rock into a pond. The rock makes a big splash, like a major life stressor, but the rock disappears. What's left is the ripple and those ripples are the hassles that arise from that big stressor. There are some psychological and mental factors involved being with stress. When stress comes to mind what does the typical person think of? People think about the pressure involved with stress. We as people
Another psychological factor involved with stress is the uncontrollability factor. This is the person's ability to have some kind of dominance or control over a particular event or situation.
stress about everything from work to family life to timing pressure. Time pressure is one of the most common forms of pressure. It seems like especially in today's society, everyone has this “I have no time” concept. This no time concept is called the poverty of time concept. People believe they have no time because they occupy themselves with something else of a lower priority such as, watching television or playing around on the computer and they could be thinking and doing what's most important. When people say they have no time to do whatever, their next breath is usually always “but I work well under pressure.” The truth is, according to government studies, that pressure can actually have a negative effect impact on a person's ability to be creative. Another psychological factor involved with stress is the uncontrollability factor. This is the person's ability to have some kind of dominance or control over a particular event or situation. Usually the less control a person has over an event the greater degree of stress. There have been studies that have shown that lack of control in a situation has a direct effect with the increase in PTSD symptoms. An example of a situation or event that one has no control over could be something we consider small, like a plane ride, or something on a larger scale, like cancer. Have you ever been frustrated with someone or something? Of course we all have. Frustration occurs when people are blocked or prohibited from achieving a desired goal. Most frustration is external, such as your car breaking down or that promotion you wanted was given to someone else. External frustration can have certain degrees of frustration. That person who is hungry but not in a hurry will have more patience and less frustration but the person who is late for their dinner reservation and their family is waiting for them will obviously be more frustrated than the other person. Aggression or actions meant to harm or wreck is another
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