Health Inventory Scores As A Function Of Perceived Stress Scores

Stress has a profound effect on health becoming a topic under health psychology, a subfield of psychology dealing with ways psychological factors influence the causes, treatment of physical illness and maintenance of health. Stress has a multitude of sources from natural disasters to small annoyances that interrupts people’s daily lives. Research from Brown and McGill has also shown that positive events can also generate stress due to readjustment or unpreparedness. Unfortunately in life people will experience chronic stressors which are sources of stress that occur continuously or repeatedly. Accumulation of small stressors such as bullying and money troubles can lead up to distress and illness. These daily stressors are reported to have more psychological and physical symptoms which can have a greater and long lasting impact than major life

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Stress has been linked to hypertension, heart attacks, diabetes, asthma, chronic pain, allegeries, headaches, skin disorders, cancer, immune system weakness and decrease blood count (Cummings et al, 2005). It has also been linked to an increase risk of alcoholism and drug use. High levels of stress can lead to higher absenteeism, larger staff turnover and low productivity. The symptoms are evident in the quantitative data, with an

If we feel stressed about a problem at home, at work, within ourselves, or within the world, this can affect our overall health and mood. The Mayo Clinic cites many common symptoms that are the result of stress, including headaches, muscle tension, chest pain, nausea, issues with sleeping, and fatigue. These symptoms are often so commonplace that we don’t realize they are caused by stress. Aside from physical pain, the Mayo Clinic also says that stress can affect your feelings by causing anxiety, the inability to focus, crankiness, and even depression. This moodiness can affect eating habits and social life, lead to abuse of drugs and alcohol, and contribute to a decrease in exercise. I believe that stress has become a talking point today

According to ***Carnegie Mellon University. (2012, April 2). How stress influences disease: Study reveals inflammation as the culprit. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 16, 2016 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402162546.htm, being under a tremendous amount of stress prevents the cells in our immune system from responding to hormonal control, causing inflammation, which is responsible for cardiovascular, asthma, autoimmune and disorder . During the experiment healthy participants received a shot causing a cold virus to see how well the immune system fights off the virus while under stress. The purpose of the study was to figure out to reduce infection in a highly stressed individual. Being under stress can automatically create a negative mind frame; insyead of thinking how things can go right, we start to automatically think of how they can go wrong. Though we think negative being under stress helps increase our focus on more positive things. In Association for Psychological Science. (2012, February 28). Stress changes how people make decisions.

Stress has a very personalized effect, and can vary widely for different people, even in identical situations. One survey showed that many police officers found the dangers on the streets less stressful than pushing papers. Another survey (by the maker of a deodorant) claimed that housewives were under more stress than the CEO’s of major corporations.

Given a survey on the effects of stress on a person’s health, 40% of students in the Period 6 study hall at Northern Lebanon High school will report that stress has caused their health to decline.

Stress affects individuals of all ages, genders, and cultures. Either good or bad it effects daily life and can cause turmoil if not dealt with in a healthy manner. Take for example Josh Jones (client name has been changed to protect their confidentiality) a Caucasian adolescent male living in a rural Oregon school district. At age eleven he has just transitioned from elementary school to middle school and is adjusting to a larger pool of classmates and adapting to higher expectations set by his teachers. Josh is a middle child with two parents, one of whom recently lost their job; these multiple stressors in Josh’s life have accumulated to the point where Josh is having difficulty managing his stress prompting the following health

Hans Selye started to use the term “stress” when he discovered that all of his patients looked sick and worn out. He concluded that all of them had something in common: they were all under physical stress. Selye did not stop when he provided convincing arguments that stress impacted health. Could it be psychological? Could it be stressful? John Mason, a physician, designed an experiment to test if psychological stress was equivalent physical stress. Either way hormone levels increased when put in a stressful situation. There was also a debate about whether people react the same way or react different. Eventually it came to be that there are common element that cause stress, however, people will react differently to the stressors. In my research,

Stress and health connections are not generally direct, and a few studies have demonstrated that these connections rely on upon both

The self-assessment, “How Stressful is my Life” is an evaluation tool used to help measure an individual stress in their life thereby predicting the risk of potential health related illness associated with stress. The evaluation measured different events in an individual’s life, over the last 12 months, whether positive or negative. Each event is weighted and all that apply is added for a total score. Based on the total score and where it fits into a predetermined range, suggest the level of stress an individual possess.

The unique aspect of this 1998 study was that its emphasis was between these two types stressors and the intentional exposure of the two types of common colds. The researchers designed an observational study in which 125 men and 151 women ranging from ages 18-55 participated. Participants that were eligible completed the LED to asses what types of acute or chronic stressors they had and for how long they were present. The main findings of the team was that 99% of participants that did not produce antibody were infected and those that did had 69% infected averaged to an 84% infection rate. On the other hand 58% of participants that did not produce antibody developed a cold and 19% that produced antibody developed a cold which averaged to 40% developing a cold. Ultimately, their conclusion is that chronic stressors played a more major role in infection and developing a cold rates in comparison to acute stressors. In addition, the findings from behavioral practices such as smoking and drinking followed previous evidence pointing out that there is little to no connection between habits and impact on stress and developing a

They investigated whether perceived stress and health behaviors had any correlation between the different socioeconomic levels. Senn’s participants came to a public clinic and took a survey about socioeconomic status and health behaviors. The participants then indicated their own social standing in relation to others and gave their address to help locate them in a neighborhood for evaluation. Senn’s results showed that when looking at all three socioeconomic status levels, those who were in the bottom third had the poorest health. When studying the participant’s response to stress, one glaring problem for people in the lowest third of the socioeconomic level was a lack of intervention to relieve any stress in their lives. One of the team’s primary conclusions was that intervention is necessary to help reduce the impact of stressors of the people in the bottom third of the socioeconomic level (Senn 2014). The team reasoned that interventions could improve the health of the socioeconomically

Stress and illness relationship is complex and symptoms and severity varies from one person to another(1). Stress has a significant impact upon the body's systems raising the risk for heart attacks and chronic illnesses(3). Stress depresses the immunity and degrade all body defense resulting in fragile and susceptible condition to diseases(3). Managing stress can help preventing many health

Individual differences in responding to stress are influenced by genetics, developmental and environmental influences, as well as being linked with one's own life experiences (McEwen and Stellar, 1993). However, stress does cause some common changes. Emotionally, stress can lead to feelings of depression, anxiety and anger (McEwen et al, 1993). Accordingly, on the basis of the above criteria, it is clear that stress has a direct correlation on health outcomes.