Introduction:
“Stress” is a term that can be used to define the emotional, physical, cognitive and behavioral responses originated due to events that are challenging or threatening. “Stressors” are the stress-causing events that appraised in a person due to an external source and can range between mild to severe. Stressors are of two kinds: one those cause “distress” and other those causes “eustress”.
Answer to Problem 1TY
Correct answer:
A person has a comprehensive final exam in three weeks that the person is concerned about. His concerns prompt him to go ahead and start studying, and in doing so, he feels less worried as the exam approaches. In the above example, the exam, the person’s concerns, and his behavior may be seen as an example of eustress. Therefore, option d. is correct.
Option d. is given as “eustress”.
Explanation of Solution
Reasons for the correct statement:
Eustress appraised from positive events which make a person to change or adapt. Eustress can also be defined as the optimal quantity of stress required by people to promote their health and well-being. This kind of stress reaction is essential for an individual to feel content and work well.
Hence, option d. is correct.
Reasons for the incorrect statements:
Option a. is given as “burnout”.
A state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion appraised from excessive and prolonged stress is called burnout.
Hence, it is a wrong answer.
Option b. is given as “depression”.
In the given example, the person has changed his ways to overcome his stress level due to eustress reaction, such situation does not relate to depression.
Hence, it is a wrong answer.
Option c. is given as “distress”.
In the given example the person has experienced positive stress reactions due to eustress that make demands on the person to make changes. Distress is stimulated by unpleasant and undesirable stress reactions.
Hence, it is a wrong answer.
Hence, options a., b., and c. are incorrect.
The eustress is a stress reaction that appraised from positive events and brings some changes and adaptation in the person.
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