PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anxiety Disorder, Psychoneuroimmunology, Coronary Artery Disease
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Response to a situation that threatens or appears to threaten ones sense of well being. Stressor: something that triggers a stress response. Chronic stressor: long-term stressor with no definitive end. Our appraisal and perception of a situation triggers the emotional state connected to stress. Feeling frustrated: an emotion experienced when something prevents us from reaching a goal. Feeling pressure: an expectation or demand that one should act in a certain way. Feeling conflict: discomfort due to two or more incompatible goals or impulses. Feeling endangered: life threat situation produces stress. Daily hassles: small, everyday problems that accumulate to become a sore of stress, micro-stressers. Social readjustment rating scale: assigns life change units to various events that can occur in ones life. Living in a dangerous place, poverty, challenges, associated with being part of a minority group. Chronic illness: the imposition of pain and limitations due to illness. Chronic job stress: certain jobs produce chronic stress.
