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Your Score: Mild Indication of High Stress

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Your Score: Mild Indication of an Anxiety Disorder

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The psychological effects of stress on the body affect the mental, emotional and physical aspects of the body in multiple ways. The mental or cognitive effects of stress lead to depression, anxiety, and even higher level psychological disorders that may genetically be in place and not treated.  The emotional effect on the body leads to anger, fear, despair, low self esteem and sometimes betrayal.  These can lead into the mental effects and increase the risk of depression.  The physical effects of stress come from both the mental and biological effects, and can lead to heart disease, cancer or even death.  The physical ability to get better from certain illnesses is decreased with stress due to lowering the immune system, and increasing the cortisol in the body.  Overall, these three systems feed off of each other and cause negative effects that result in higher level coping mechanisms.

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The biopsychosocial effects of stress on the body, both short term and long term are affected by multiple factors.  Biologically, short term stress causes cardiovascular and endocrine system inflammation, and can increase risk of stroke or heart attack.  Long term, biological factors have similar effects on the cardiovascular and endocrine system, but it also lowers the immune system and increases risk of disease and illnesses.  Psychologically,  anxiety and depression come into play with the short term and long term effects of stress.  Anxiety is usually short term, but depression and even feelings of despair and hopelessness is known.  Socially, stress can affect and be affected by family, culture and workplace relationships, resulting in psychological problems and decreased emotional support.

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Generally, coping with stress comes from many different personal areas, but it is an ever evolving field.  Coping with stress, you can follow textbook definitions of problem and emotion based coping, but also personal understanding is needed.  Coping may include a social aspect, and it also may include a psychological aspect.  Socially, support groups are helpful, but with increased anxiety or deeper depression, psychological help is needed to move forward with coping.  With referencing the workplace, changes cause anxiety and coping mechanisms are utilized to provide support with changes and decrease stress level.  "We also witness the effects that these changes have on others, and how these effects turn on us, our capacity to give, our energy levels, the priorities we set and how we manage and cope". (Cooper, Dewe 2017).

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In order to manage my personal stress, I utilize emotional and problem based mechanisms.  Emotionally, to reduce anxiety, I utilize the positive words, and change the cognitive side to approach a situation with positive emotions.  I also utilize the meaning of a situation to understand someone elses view, or a problem that is controlling me, and it assists with reducing stress.  I am the type of person that is understanding, so if I do find the meaning behind a problem, typically I can understand and not stress.

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General ways of managing stress are utilized quite frequently, but they have to be initiated throughout interpersonal skills. Coping, by definition of the textbook is " the process by which people try to manage the perceived discrepancy between the demands and resources they appraise in stressful situations''. (Sarafino, Smith 2017).  Cognitive and behavioral actions are key to coping with stress, and it is essential but it is not a single action. Generally, coping is emotional and problem based, requiring different mechanisms for both. This is emotion based coping and problem based coping, developing different situations to find the right coping style. Intricate ways of coping with stress are, engaging positive emotions, finding benefits or meaning, engaging in emotional approach and accommodating to a stressor.

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My personal stress is mild, and the test result for anxiety was as well.  With that, my personal stress was always high in the past, and resulted in high levels of anxiety and depression.  Per the quiz, I have mild levels in all of the areas that used to be a big problem.  I run a rehab department in a nursing home, and have learned that educating myself in multiple areas reduces the stress of making the numbers I need.  The workplace can be stressful, but I have learned to reduce it.  School hasn't been a personal stress of mine, and it actually is utilized as a coping mechanism of mine.  Relationships would be the most stressful thing that I currently have.  My children are college age, and five year old. I find myself unnecessarily stressing about their future and having to remind myself that I am not in control.

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Support groups are very important if a person is able to cope utilizing them.  Support groups can come from church, school, work, or even within the social group a person is involved in.  Personally, I feel that social groups are overwhelming and not comfortable. I have utilized personal counseling in the past, but really found that self help books are very useful.  I continue to read about personality, reducing stress, and personal development to continue my own growth as an individual and part of a family.

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Relationships are meant to be loving, caring, and not stressful.  This would be a perfect world, if this was true.  Stressful relationships can be healthy, and unhealthy, but not easily avoided.  Women tend to become more stressed than women, not necessarily from a relationship, but the ties required within a relationship.  Women tend to have an increased risk in heart disease due to workload and stress, therefore, men are having to stress over their partner.  Any type of relationship could be stressful, especially with the partnership that requires financial burdens, children, and overall health concerns.  As people age, relationships with parents and children become stressful for children.  Children are caring for their older parents, and having to take a financial cut, at times, to care for the aging parent.  This can cause a stressful situation between the child/parent relationship, and that will in turn, be taken home to the child's partnership at home.  Psychosocial relationship stressors can become cultural, and even slightly discriminatory, with the focus on women's role in the relationship versus mens.  Also, relationships that are troubling, or withstanding high acuity of stressful events, result in chronic stress, or even general adaptation syndrome.

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Personal experience and self disclosure can help a person develop better coping techniques and recognize the problem to cope with.  For example,  if you were stressing over a problem that had occured with your family, disclosing the problem to someone or a support group will be the first step, then everyone can come together to solve the problem and understand it. Self disclosure is key to getting help, and being able to cope with stress and problems.

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School will always be a personal stress, and the stressors that are involved tend to be grades, benchmarks, and time management.  Most of the time, students aren't able to devote full time attention from their personal lives to give studying 100%.  With that, school becomes stressful, versus taking away a stressor with the value of education.  The strain on the body leads to cardiovascular issues, as well as a decrease in the immune system, and the student can become very ill.  With that, missing school is a problem, and regular attendance is important.  With the stress of illness developing due to the stress of missing school, ironically, the immune system weakens and illness occurs.

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General financial stress is impossible to avoid, especially when attempting to raise a family and make ends meet.  Unexpected bills, or emergencies happen, and not having the funds to pay them, make stress increase drastically.  When you are alone, typically the stress is paying the mortgage, providing yourself safe transportation, and making sure you have food to eat.  As people age, families form, and the stress of providing for yourself only increases to having to provide to other people.  This can be especially stressful for parents who are trying to raise families, and save for college and retirement of their own.

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Cooper, C. Dewe, P. (2017). Work Stress and Coping. Forces of Change and Challenges.  Sage Publications Ltd. Retrieved from: https://eds-b-ebscohost-com.lopes.idm.oclc.or g/eds/ebookvie wer/ebook/ bmxlYmtfXzE1MjIwMDNfX0FO0?sid=250cc729-b771-4e11-b764-f76b5c4d8676@pdc-v-sessmgr01&vid=1&format=EB&rid=1

Sarafino, E.Smith, T (2017). Health Psychology. Biopsychosocial Interactions. Chapter3. Retrieved from: http://www.gcumedia.com/digit al-resources/wiley-and-sons/2 016/health-psychology_biopsychosocial-interactions_9e.php

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Work stress can factor both acute and chronic stress and affect the body in a biological and psychological manner.  The reactivity to being laid off, or having a poor review, is biological, and can cause sudden changes to the cardiovascular and endocrine system.  Chronic workplace stress can lead to general adaptation syndrome, and over time, can reduce the immune system, and even increase chances of cancer or cardiovascular disease.  The workplace can be stressful with the pressures of deadlines, numbers, and staffing, and cannot be controlled, resulting in increased stress.  Stressors include, deadlines, budgets, staffing, and overall job duties that may be unmanageable.  Changes in the workplace aren't always an easy fix, and living within the means of the requirements for the households leads people to endure more stress then they can handle.