Time Stress Test

(February 2014) Similar to this study I used a stress scale although, I reduced mine to a scale between: 1-5. “5” being the highest level of stress. The Stress in America study used a Perceived Stress Scale that participants self-monitored their stress levels by answering where they would answer such questions as “how often have you felt irritable and angry in the last month” and they could answer,(very often, sometimes, never etc.) For my purposes I asked myself the following three questions and used the following rating system to determine my stress levels that day.(Angus, n.d.)

After reading and studying within this chapter, I choose to take Lab 4A: Assessing Heart Disease Risk Factors test for my complete section. Wanting to know if my choice of life-style was harming me in more ways than thought, shockingly I found that my hearts only real risk factor was within myself, my mind. Stress seems to be a downfall more than known; unbelievable this proves as this chapter stated your mentality can be the key to great heath. Diving right into the test, thinking wow all 1’s very low score, low being good in this case. I skipped the “Are you under much stress?” thinking, no I do not think so, this will be a 1 too. However, I wanted to be completely sure so I researched more on stress causes and effects, how to know how stressed you truly are, how you handle stress, etc… I found this stress test from the Stress Management Society, which tells how vulnerable to

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.

The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale were not surprising to me. My family mean a lot to me and if I had to take a leave of absence or quit my job for a change in the health of a family member, I would. You can’t plan on a family member getting sick this is just something that happens. I would miss my work but I know I can come back to work when the time is right.

According to the score I received from the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, I have low stress in my life as well as having low risk of developing a stress-related disorder, however, I believe that this may under predict my perceived emotional stress level. I understand that this scale must be generalized in order to the whole of the population, I believe that this scale might be more informative if there were different tests for different aged people. As a college student, I face a lot of stress from my classes and since there are not as specific scores relating to that, I have a lower score than anticipated. In regard to the characteristics of potential stressors; the severity of my stress personally feels high because it generally involves

This week’s article was “Teachers, Students, and Sleep” by Dave Stuart Jr. It discusses the importance of sleep to both teachers and students, and ways to make sure they get the best sleep to succeed each day. According to the article, sleep can be easily thrown off, especially by late night snacking. Also, the article states, “one of the most valuable and overlooked aspects of sleep is an operation called memory processing,” which is a part of REM sleep. The bad thing is, these snack before bed disrupt this REM sleep, making our quality of sleep much worse. Another key role in getting better sleep is regularity, which is “one of the most important factors in how well people sleep.” It has also been proven that sleep impacts performance. As

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

I am my own worst enemy when it comes to time management. I know what has to be accomplished for the day and I usually always run out of time. I have five teenagers still at home and while they are a huge help majority of the time there are days that they are very tempormental. If they are having an off day they argue over any little thing, which tends to knock the evening schedule off its axis. I am a full time student with the usual everyday life activities as well as after school sports. I am an organizer and while my home is organized my time schedule is not. When things do not flow smoothly I tend to get very stressed.

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

My score surprised me that I had to repeat the test to make sure I had the correct numbers. I scored slightly above 300 in the assessment but do not believe I am at risk for any major illness. I think I am moderately stressed perhaps, the numbers associated with each question is not accurate.

Over time, everyone has stressful moments from a change in position at work to a close friend or family member dying. According to Michelle Albert M.D., “Stress is a natural part of life” (Is stress making you sick, 2012). It is when the stress becomes too much that it can become unhealthy. It can cause many complications on different body systems for the individual. As humans, there are many ways that we can try and cope with or lower our stress levels. There are several questionnaires that can help to determine the stress levels of individuals over the last 6 months or over the last year.

On my first test, Scale #1: Stressed Out? I only rated a 9, compared to the average of about 12.4, my score of 9 is significantly lower than the average. Thus, I’m not that stressed out of a person for someone my age. The Scale #2 test for susceptibility to stress was calculated at just 10. The average being 32. When it comes to things that are difficult for me to handle I take them step by step and day by day. Pushing through this next deployment with my husband is going to be the greatest stressor for me for the next 7 months, but because of that stressor my response to that stress is going to be, to do the same thing I did last time, and that is to fill my day with things that need to be done and school that needs my utmost attention. Which is very beneficial because my Scale #7: Locus of Control measures one’s sense of control in personal achievement situations, my score was 53, with the average being 51.8 for women. This shows me that dedicating myself to my schoolwork for this deployment will reduce my stress

There are two main streams, one is reverse the cognitive and behavioral processes involved in maintaining sleep disturbance. Another is to teach the client’s coping techniques that patients can use in instances of residual sleep difficulty.(Harvey, 2010).

The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14; Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1983) is a 14-item self-reported assessment used to measure an individual’s perception of stress levels. Using a 5-point Likert scale participants rate each area within the last month ranging from never (0) to very often (4). An example of “In the last month, how often have you felt you were on top of things?” The higher the score the more evident the presence of increased levels of perceived stress. This scale has proven to be reliable in previous research as well as been proven to be adequate with test-retest reliability. This assessment is easy to administer to participants and offers a wide range of stressors to

This questionnaire will show how stress affects different parts of your life. Circle the response which best indicates how often you experience each stress indicator during a typical week. When you have answered all the questions add the point totals for each section. 5- Almost Always (on five days a week) 4- Most of the time (on three days a week) 3- Some of the time ( on one and one-half days a week) 2- Almost never (less than two hours a week) 1- Never PHYSICAL INDICATORS: How often would you say: