Stress is a state of threatened homeostasis that triggers an array of adaptive physiological and behavioral response in an effort to reestablish homeostasis. (Edelman & Mandle, 2014)
The emergence and experience of stress depends not only on objective, but on subjective factors, the characteristics of the man himself: assessment of their situation, mapping their forces and characteristics that are required, etc. Any surprise which breaks the habitual course of life can cause stress or stressor. It does not matter the content of the situation and the degree of objective threat. Important is a subjective attitude.
A stressor is the factor that causes stress. Distinguish physiological and psychological stressors. Physiological stressors – excessive exercise, high or low temperature, painful stimuli and other Psychological stressors are divided into information and emotional. Information stress occurs in situations of information overload, when a person does not do his homework, no time to make the right decisions at the proper pace. Emotional stress arises in situations of threat, danger, anger, resentment, and so on.
For human life, its mental and physical health and happiness the ability to handle stress is vital. Overcoming is an ever changing mental and behavioral efforts that a person responds to the demands of stress. Overcoming is not one single strategy that is used in any circumstances, at any time. People overcome stress in different ways. Effective response to stress that leads to adaptation is the use of such a strategy of interaction with the stressor, which significantly reduces feelings of stress. It is impossible to think that one can completely avoid stress. In addition, stress itself is not necessarily a bad thing. A certain amount or level of stress in our lives is natural. Stress is often a natural consequence of the fact that we live in the real world. Only the use of ineffective ways of dealing with stress may fatigue to bring misfortune.
Reference
Edelman, C. & Mandle, C. (2014). Health promotion throughout the life span (9th ed., p. 955). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.
