Essays on Effects Of Stress

Abstract

The real estate industry is widely known to be stressful for its professionals, and especially for those working in New York City. This paper will examine causes for stress in the real estate field and how this stress could be exacerbated by working specifically in NYC real estate. In particular, this study will focus on the concept of burnout in the work place, relevant to real estate professionals. It will also address some of the physical and psychological symptoms that work stress can bring about in an individual.

Introduction

Stress is generally understood to be mental or emotional strain, brought ...

Effects of Stress on NYC Real Estate Professionals

Predominantly, stress is the of mental or emotional strain that is brought into place by exceedingly adverse situations that an individual is undergoing. Stress also implies to the body’s reactions to adverse conditions. For instance, and a person can be subjected to stress when they feel threatened in their jobs. Stress can therefore permanently affect the entire aspect of an individual’s life such as emotions, physical health, and thinking capability. The New York City, real estate professionals, are stressed out with situations such as commute time, hours that and individual is expected to use in service delivery ...

Causes, Effects and Management of Stress at the Workplace

Job stress is the detrimental physical and psychological responses that result from job demands that exceed a workers resources, capabilities, and needs (“Stress in the workplace,” 2009). In most cases, stress increases healthcare costs and reduces productivity. The causes and effects of work-related stress can be countered using individual and organizational strategies, which include assertiveness and training. Stress is caused by the content or demands of the job and the organizational needs or objectives. Organizational stress arises from heavy work overloads and issues with job security. In regards to job security, inadequate staff capabilities can affect their development, which ...

Abstract

The effects of stress are discussed in the paper along with my personal experience. The reasons are also given with the identification of symptoms that resulted in the stressful situation. Stress always put direct effects on the brain of the victim. Stress also disturbs mental and emotional intelligence of a person. The symptoms are found in the same age people due to their past and present critical situations. Stressful situation not only damage brain. It also put effects on the body parts of the victim. The self-practice could reduce the stress of the victim. Drug is not the solution of ...

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of stress among workers. A sample of 100 workers was used in the research and this included both sexes. Stress is generally a psychological problem that interferes with the stability of the mind of an individual. Interviews were carried out among the 100 workers where they were asked of how stress affected their performance at work. Not all workers were reached out to be interviewed. Therefore, use of questionnaires was employed in the exercise. According to the results it was found out that stress had negative effects on the performance ...

Stress is the state of tension that occurs in a human or animal under the influence of strong pressures. In Chinese, the term "stress" is composed of two characters - danger and opportunity. Uncomfortable condition for a human and a negative impact on the emotional and psychological state makes it a premonition of danger (Rothmann, Steyn and Mostert, 2005). When we talk about stress at work, such an expectation is primarily related to the fear of dismissal, failure to plan, demonstrate one’s competence, conflict with management or team. Still, stress brings certain advantages to employees apart from the drawbacks it has. The causes, ...

- Introduction While some stress is inevitable in life, undue amounts of stress in the workplace can have a very detrimental effect on an individual’s life and mental health if it continues for any significant amount of time. There are a plethora of reasons for stress in the workplace; each reason impacts individuals differently, as everyone handles stress levels with completely different levels of competency. There are, essentially, five factors that govern the amount of stress that an individual feels in the workplace; in an ideal work environment, each type of stress will be minimized as much as possible ...

Introduction

The physiological and emotional impacts of stress have been widely discussed in the fields of social and health psychology. It is no longer a secret that exposure to stress carries a bevy of physiological and psychological detriments, yet the existing research on the best ways to mitigate the detrimental effects of stress is not as conclusive. While stress is frequently studied, the wide variety of operational definitions of stress, as well as the wide variety of stressors in existence make it difficult to create conclusive research. While there is no “one size fits all” approach to stress mitigation, there are some ...

Stress has many health impacts on one’s physical and mental health. The health effects of stress range from minor to major issues. Simple health issues like headaches, stomach upsets, rashes, loss of hair, increasing heart beat rates and muscle aches all result from stress. It is vital to note that stress is individualized and a stress trigger in one person may not be a trigger in a different person. Psychological stress plays a huge role in triggering physical symptoms and disease processes. Medical research done by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shows that ninety percent of all illnesses are in some ...

Stress

Many people all over the world experience different events in their lives. These events can be either positive or negative. Everyone reacts differently to these events and situations depending on the degree of the effects that these situations have on them. When the events happen, people automatically evaluate the situations mentally. They decide whether the situations are threatening to them or not, how to deal with them and what skills to use in dealing with them. This paper identifies what stress is, its causes, its effects to people’s lives and solutions to those effects. First of all, ...

Stress has been a common “illness” among professional’s alike and ordinary people. Several have been claiming that they are stress out. This claim has resulted to numerous drugs that are available over the counter to reduce stress. In addition, stress reliever sessions and classes have also been put up by psychologists or even gym instructors just for the purpose of reducing the stress that a person is feeling. What is stress and what causes it? Psychologically speaking, stress is defined as a reaction to a stimulus that can affect both the physical and mental equilibrium. As a result, it can cause numerous disturbances ...

1. What are the differences between physiological and psychological needs? Provide examples of each in your response. A need is an internal drive to do something for satisfaction or to attain a goal. It is distinguished into two categories called physiological needs and psychological needs. Every person has similar set of physiological and psychological needs since their birth up to their death. Physiological needs are related to the maintenance of our physical being. These are the basic needs required by our human body to survive in this world. These needs make us age and remain part of the ...

Whereas individuals can respond differently to the same type of stress, if stressed too frequently, the body may suffer harmful effects given that stress is the body's response to challenging situations and circumstances. In biological terms, stress refers to responses by organisms to stressors that could be environmental stimuli or conditions (Heidenreich, 2009). It is usually a way in which individual’s bodies respond to challenges by means of the activation of the sympathetic nervous systems. The resultant effects of the responses to stress could either be a flight response or a fight response. Stressful conditions are typically conditions that are either ...

Causes and Effects of Stress

According to Han Selye, stress can be defined as the response of the body when there is a certain excessive demand for change (McEvoy, 2004). From Selye’s definition it becomes obvious that the environment is the main instigator of stress. Notably, there are a plethora of causes of stress just likes there are several effects of stress.

According to Glehill (2007) causes of stress can be categorized into various groups such as internal and external causes of stress. Internal causes of stress encompass factors like illnesses and psychological factors. While talking about illnesses, Glehill (2007) refers the various diseases that a ...

The New Family Norm

Personality theories A theory can be defined as a theory of reality which helps in understanding, explaining, predicting and controlling that reality. A theory can also be defined as a guide to action. Mostly when we talk about the personality of a person, we are talking about the behavior that makes that person different from others perhaps unique. This feature of personality is referred to as individual differences. As it is evident, some people are neurotic, others are not, and others are more introverted while other people are more extroverted and so on. Erik Erikson and Sigmund Freud are some of ...

Stress and Stress Management

Abstract Stress has become a major era that is affecting our everyday life. This situation comes about normally when the body is rising to a challenge or facing some difficulties. In this paper we intend to look at the bad and good stress and analyze them critically. The paper also intends to look at the evolution of stress and how it has affected people since its discovery. This will help the readers to get a clear concept of what stress is, what causes it and how we can prevent and reduce the stress. The paper will also analyze on the various ...