STRESS AND COPING

Stress and Coping

Psychological stress

The term pertains to a feeling of psychological strain and pressure experienced by an individual so as to resist the circumstances or the prevailing situation. It is not just an emotion or a gesture of feeling unpleasant, but rather, a set of feeling that cause the individual to feel unpleasant and disturbed. It is usually developed when an individual interacts with an environment, whereas, fails to rationalize the particular happenings take place around him. It is much stronger than a mere feeling of displeasure, and could cause serious psychological and mental disorders.

There are several types of psychological stress enlisted as under;

Acute stress: the stress that is experienced by an individual due to some change and usually does not occur over a large period of time

Cronin stress: when an individual experiences miserable situation over a long period of time, and develop stress symptoms (Robbins, 2007)

Coping methods

Coping pertains to the intentional effort that is made by an individual in a conscious state so as to minimize or eradicate the state caused by stress. There are three types of coping methods explained t

Cognitive bases: the foremost ad most common type of coping method pertains to the change in the thinking and perception of the individual experiencing stress

Problem bases: another major type of stress encompasses of the problem based approach that pertains to the consoling of the individual regarding the problem

Emotional bases: another type stress pertains to the development of a sound defense against an emotional mechanism that leads the individual towards the stress (Aldwin, 2009)

Problem caused by stress in human behavior

In the scientific perspective of psychology, stress is the most relevant facet that alters the behavior of the individual much faster than any other force, since it affects the entire thinking mechanism of the human being, and therefore, ...