Stress Self Assessment

Stress has a huge impact on the immune system. The immune system is interconnected. For example the immune, nervous, and endocrine system is linked through specialized communication pathways involving hormones, neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and immune cell productions. Stress reactions can directly affect the various response systems and how they handle the neuroendocrine-products. This stress reaction directly affects the hypothalamus and pituitary peptides through the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system. Some of these stressors might be life events, anxiety, and excitements.

Society defines stress as anything which forces us to change. Through technical terms stress is defined as “a negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taking or exceeding a person’s resources or ability to cope.” To explaining stress researchers came up with the “Cognitive appraisal model”, this system works to tell us whether we believe we have enough resources to deal with the situation without becoming stressed. For instance as a now college student those who have had previous experience taking finales in high school can have less stress than those who have not taken it. This is because they have previous experience with taking the tests and learning how to study while those who have never taken one can become extremely stressed over the unknown of the test. Stress is one of the sub branches that is attached to the world of health psychology. Health psychology is a quickly growing branch that deals with the way the mind and body work together. Psychologists that work in the health field came up with the biopsychosocial model. This model explains the complex interaction with biological, psychological, and social factors.

After marking the points for the Holmes-Rahe life stress inventory and reading what the point value means, I definitely disagree with the assessment. There are two reasons I disagree with the inventory; the first being, this inventory takes a snapshot of past events and does not reference future factors that may or may not affect the events you had selected. The second reason is, I do not understand how some of the events one the inventory would add a higher chance of having a stress related health breakdown. For example, a promotion, vacation, or holidays should be life events which lowers stress for an individual. I agree that individuals deal with life events and stress in different ways, which is why I believe inventories, health quizzes, and health questions should be tailored to the individual taking them. Perhaps then people will have a more accurate picture in order to properly plan, organize, and prioritize their life events thereby limiting stress and allowing more control over stress related health.

Stress can get bad enough to where it starts to affect your body system. Things like depression, heart attacks, diseases, rashes and a low immune system can all occur to people dealing with stress bad enough. The number of common signs and symptoms is outrageous and is depressing to see that there are so many people dealing with this and how it’s such a common thing in this world. On stress.org, they talk about the different body systems and how they’re affected. The nervous, musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, gastro and reproductive systems are all affected in some way and in many ways to say the least. If your stress ever gets so bad, I consider seeing a doctor or specialist seeing how dangerous this can get.

Getting sick is another negative factor of being overly stressed. Chronic stress compromises your immune system and stress hormones affect the body’s ability to fight off illness due to the fact that thymus’s ability to stimulate and coordinate the white blood cell activity.

To manage stress students need to understand the factors that could trigger stress. For incoming freshmen there are things that they need to understand before entering college. First, they need to know the reason why they need to go to college. Knowing your reason will help students to achieve their goals and more dedicated with their studies. Second, create a plan. Planning and scheduling is essential in setting up goals. Students need to consider what schedule they prefer and their availability. Try not to enroll in multiple classes just to finish your course. It is advisable to have a handful to understand the subject rather than getting multiple subjects and dropped or failed some of them. In addition, some are not full time students, so

I used the self-evaluation tool, to evaluate my stress level over the past year. Surprisingly my score of 118, (151 or above suggested high stress or 150 and below indicated low stress or low susceptibility to health related

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By taking stress-level assessments, I have determined that my main stressors are mostly triggered by school and time management. Back when I was a student athlete, it was extremely hard for me to organize my time and be productive. I had a job working a minimum of 30 hours a week, on top of practice and games and other sports related commitments, along with regularly attending classes and finding the time to complete my homework. I was always a very social person, so not having that time where I could socialize was hard for me.I constantly felt burdened by obligations and responsibilities. I now realize that I also stress about school and what the future may hold. I am currently in a position where I am considering changing my major, however,

On my stress assessment quiz, I scored an 8. It was on the AllPsych website and called the Stress Vulnerability Quiz. My score was relatively high because the high vulnerability range for the quiz was 6-10. I was recommended to focus on the more positive aspects of my behavior and change the negative ones that affect my stress level/vulnerability. Some stressors in my life would be school, SAT and ACT, college, and money. The biggest stressor would be school. My need to maintain an A in all my classes combine with my parent’s expectations overstress and worry me. I also don’t manage my sleep very well and tend to overreact on small matters. To reduce my stress at school, I need to manage my time better. I need to plan out what I need to do

Stress has significant effect on physical health especially our heart. Studies have proven time and again that the chronic stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system which happens in ‘flight or fight response’ has far reaching consequence on the neuro endocrine system. The stress hormone alter the way blood clots, increasing rates of atherosclerosis which block

My score for the Stress Vulnerability Questionnaire was 67 points which puts me under poor (highly vulnerable to stress). Similarly, my Stress Source Questionnaire score was 574 which it is considered as a moderate amount of stress since I scored more than 500. These results though do not prove that I have a significant amount of stress carrying on but also incentives me to act urgently and start planning up behavior modification as well as start applying relaxation techniques that help me manage this stress I suffer from. As a result, I will need to work on this area and make sure I learn to properly manage stress by making use of a relaxation technique that best works for me.

The article is in favour of the fact that stress is unavoidable and should be confronted. This article is not research directed or has a purpose in determining whether or not stress is prevalent in life and if there is a way of dealing with it. This article leans towards the idea that yes, stress is inevitable, and yes, there are proven ways of coping with it. The second weakness of the article is the fact that quantitative evidence is not present in the article. Without actual data, it is hard for the reader to picture the facts. Facts that show the success of these methods or figures showing decreased levels of stress when using these methods would make the arguments more

As if the teamwork assessment was not enough, we have to complete another to determine your susceptibility to stress-related illnesses. I wanted to rush through the survey but decided to take it seriously for the sake of my family. I tend to let stress build up to the point that I lose my appetite, I do not think clearly, I become lethargic and refuse to work out, and I am always arguing with my fiancée. Well I took the test and my score was a 1200, considering high-stress level is at 1435, I should definitely take steps to recognize when I am stressed and take the necessary steps to reduce

During the course of this article Cervantes, Fisher, Cordova, and Napper (2011) converse the Hispanic Stress Inventory for adolescents and how stress can influence their lives. The intention of this study was to conclude the forms of stressors that affect Hispanic youth through a new culturally learned psychosocial stress-assessment called the Hispanic Stress Inventory—Adolescent Version (Cervantes, Fisher, Cordova, & Napper, 2011). There was a count of eight life-event stress fields that the authors concentrated on which were: Family Economic Stress; Culture and Educational Stress; Acculturation-Gap Stress; Immigration-Related Stress; Discrimination Stress; Family Immigration Stress; Community and Gang-Related Stress; and Family and Drug-Related Stress (Cervantes, Fisher, Cordova, & Napper, 2011). The sampling method is where concerns become obvious, especially during the first phase of the study.