Social Stress Theory

Schneiderman, N., Ironson, G., & Siegel, S. D. (2005). STRESS AND HEALTH: Psychological, Behavioral, and Biological Determinants. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1,

Stress can come from anything we do in our daily lives, even if it is a positive or negative change. To measure the amount of stress a single event can cause two men named Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe came up with the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Over time this scale has been modified to accommodated for

Psycho-social stress can be anything psychological or social that causes us to feel upset. We can be “stressed out” because of our job, or because of school, or because we are poor. We define what we react to and how much time and energy we spend reacting to it. There are some people who have very difficult lives, who do not experience stress in the same way others do (Myers, 2014). Sapolsky set out to discover what psycho-social factors could be indicators about who is more likely to experience a stress response. Sopolskys research with primates with similar social structures to humans, revealed that there are several

Social/interpersonal stressors are characterized as the challenges associated with having to recreate family and social support, changing gender and family roles, and intergenerational conflicts between children and parents (Arbona et al, 2010).

Societal stressors are defined as factors that capture the discrimination and difficulties associated with being undocumented, including the fear of deportation and possible separation from their kids (Arbona et al., 2010; Perreria et al., 2006). When looking at the research done on acculturation, very few studies looked specifically into societal factors affecting undocumented parents. The studies that did look at societal stressors focused solely on discrimination and its effects on immigrants. Knowing the English language for immigrants is not just about having the language skills, but also being linguistically integrated into the U.S. since there are sets of social requirements, laws, and propositions that enforce the acquisition of the dominant language (Leuck and Wilson, 2010). When using the National Latin and Asian American Study (NLAAS), Leuck and Wilson (2010) found that language acquisition is seen as an enforced civic duty. For immigrants, keeping their ethnic language often is devalued and seen as a threat by society and thus they experience greater language based discrimination (Leuck and Wilson,

Weitz, speaks about the nature of social stress and defines stress through three components; situations, emotions, and bodily changes. Situations typically produce feelings of anxiousness and unsteadiness when dealing with situations. Emotions is when people tend to get hysterical, nervous, and hysterical when dealing with any situation. Lastly, bodily changes occur when a person’s body actions alters when situations and emotions collide (2013).

The misuse of the word stress occurs quite often between the members of the lower socioeconomic class. Recently the American Psychological Association conducted a nationwide survey to see how America is doing with its stress levels. The American Psychological Association came to the conclusion that the bulk of people encounter stress under the following conditions: loss of money, work (if employed), family responsibilities and health concerns. (“American Psychological Association Survey… NP). Members of the lower socioeconomic class very commonly fail to realize that stress is not only what makes things go wrong but, also what saves one’s life on occasions. Many people work better under pressure, what they don’t know is that they perform better because of how stressed they are to complete a certain assignment. The expectations one’s boss or teacher has for one on an assignment also turns into stress and helps one perform better. Members of higher classes realize this because they are able to afford therapists that help them analyze the root causes of their health. Members belonging to the higher classes also have proper methods of stress relief such as socializing with friends, listening to music and exercising. Rather than using the same or similar methods of stress relief, members of the lower socioeconomic class tend to smoke, drink alcohol and watch excessive amounts of television (Miller, NP). When members of the lower socioeconomic class misinterpret stress and engage in bad stress relief methods it results in more

There are numerous theoretical theories that can be applied to Fish’s case. Agnew’s social-psychological strain theory (1992, 2005), focuses on mistreatment and abuse as a source of acute stress in individuals. The theory suggests that when someone presents an individual with a negative or noxious stimuli it could promote aggressive behaviour (amongst other negative outcomes) in the targeted individual (Agnew, 1992, 2005). This in turn could possibly lead to the targeted individual involving themselves in illegal activities (Agnew, 1992, 2005). This theory helps to provide an explanation as to why Fish committed his heinous crimes as he along with the other boys at St Johns orphanage were reported to have been relentlessly abused, physically, emotionally, and sexually by the staff (Bardsley, 2012; Schechter, 2003). According to Brown et al., (2014), the staff would often strip the children of their clothes then proceed to viciously beat them, this was made worse by the fact that the other children were forced to watch the savage beatings. Fish stated “I was there [St. John’s Orphanage] till I was nearly nine and that’s where I got started wrong. We were unmercifully whipped. I saw boys doing many things they should not have done” (Berry-Dee, 2011, pp 157).

This article investigated the impact of perceived social stressors on job and career satisfaction. Additionally, the researchers sought to find out if political skills could attenuate the negative effects of social stressors. The purpose of

In defining the concept of stress, occupational stress and role stress are examined based on the fact that people's lives are characterized with stressors that contribute to numerous threats to their well-being. Since the concept of role stress, which is related to occupational stress, is not found in the dictionary, the starting point in the definition and analysis of stress is the use of the term stress (Riahi, 2011, p.722). While stress was initially described as the experience of some form of strain by any living organisms, the description has been expanded to a phenomenon that contributes to severe and distressing experience,

According to Lett et al. (2005)’s categorization, the types of social support reviewed by this paper by could be broadly grouped into two categories. The first type is structural support, which usually refers to the size of one’s social network, the type of relationship or the frequency of one’s contact (Berkman et al., 1992; Gorkin et al., 1993; Chandra et al., 1983; Jenkinson et al., 2000). The second type is perceived functional support, indicating one’s subjective interpretation of whether support would be available if needed (Berkman et al., 1992; Gorkin et al., 1993; Welin et al., 2000).

I was delighted to receive encouragement to resubmit this proposal and am extremely grateful to the five reviewers for their insightful comments. I was gratified to read Reviewer 5’s comment that “the proposed activities are creative, original and potentially transformative,” and Reviewer 1’s comments that “this research may lead to theoretical advances in the understanding of stigma more broadly” and that I am “an expert in this field and well-suited to carry out the proposed research.” Although space limitations preclude me from detailing how I addressed every individual comment, here I will summarize the major changes to guide the Panel’s review.

Everybody has at least one thing in common. Can you guess what it is? If you guessed, heartbreak, you’re right, but that’s not the answer I’m looking for. The correct answer is stress. Everyone has stress in his or her life at one point or another. It’s one of many inevitable parts of life. Whether it’s busting out a research paper for Psychology at the last minute, expecting your first child to be born, to making sure you’re up in time to catch the Saturday morning cartoons, it’s clearly evident that everyone goes through stress. The real question is, how is stress handled in our society? A person is defined by how they handle the stressors in their lives and how they overcome stressful moments. This paper will explore the aspects of

Have you ever had an extremely stressful day at work? How did that change your attitude to other people throughout the rest of your day? How did your partner react to those same stressors that occurred throughout their day? This questions are what Conger, Lorenz, Elder, Simons, and Ge (1993) researched and studied throughout their paper on the stressors of the human condition relating to undesirable life events. Conger et al. (1993) wanted to explain and understand how a married couple reacts, based on gender, to stressors from all aspects of daily life. Throughout their research, Conger et al. strived to have the best sample sizes and distributions within the study. Conger et al. helped reduce outliers by paying close attention to the way the experiment was ran. There are still many ways that this experiment could have been improved.

Stress is a killer. There is doubt that stress can cause health problems. Daily stressors lead into major health problems. Therefore if you can manage your daily stress you can promote a healthier life. The American Medial Association defines stress, as being any disruptions of a person’s mental and physical well being. (4.) My position is that if you balance the stress in your life you can live healthier and prevent certain sicknesses.