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STRESS MANAGEMENT: CONCEPT AND APPROACHES
Introduction
The result from indecisiveness and/or failure to cope with the demanding situation.
Stress prone people experience more health related problems and experience difficulties in interpersonal area.
Stress is generally due to conflict emanating from high aspirations and goal attainment.
Stress cannot be totally eliminated from the individual’s life but it can be minimized which may help in leading a healthy and prosperous social life.
Conclusion
The coping strategies will guide the individual to work through both everyday stress as well as crisis stressors.
Stress management is important since stress is related to various medical conditions which has enduring effects on individual.
Stress is a complex phenomenon and is influenced by various factors.
Personality and Stress
The various type of personality people used various type of coping strategies to cope with their stresses, as their perception of stress vary.
The introvert people are more prone to stress, because they are more anxious and their expectations are infinitive.
The coping ability and the perception of stress is different from person to person.
Source of stress
It comes from every setup of human life, maybe from marital life, daily hassles of family life, dissatisfaction in marital life, low academic performance, job dissatisfaction, disturbed love affairs etcetera.
Some are of low frequency.
The low frequency stress like sudden work load in the workplace, support in social life.
High frequency in nature.
Some high frequency stresses like the hassles of
daily life are less severe.
Stages of Stress
In second stage an interpretation took place inside the brain. And then the brain perceives it either threat or no threat. If the brain regarded it as no threat, then the stress is at normal level.
The second stage is the resistance stage, where the arousal become slowdowns compare to the first stage.
The third stage, where the body stays activated, aroused until the threat is over.
The third or the exhaustion stage, which produced both psychological and physical illness.
In first stage, the stimuli from the sense organs are sent into the brain.
The alarm stage, where the body prepares itself for immediate action, aroused by the sympathetic nervous system and released the hormone which alert the organism to meet the danger.
The fourth and last stage the body returns to the homeostatic state, which results in the physical and mental calmness.
Seaward (1999, p.7) stated that stress passes through four major stages.
Stress may be ranged from mild to severe forms.
Coping Strategies
Time management.
Time management training provides individuals with skills to adjust activities with respect to time.
Social support.
Participated in social and community group programme.
Coping strategies are mostly depends on the cognitive and behavioural of the person to manage his/her stressful condition or associated emotional distress.
Coping is the process where the individual constantly changed his/her cognitive and behavioural efforts to manage specific external and internal demands, that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the resources of the person.
Relaxation exercise.
Relaxation is not only used to release the physical tension but also improve the mental well being. Relaxation exercise may be categorized into: Progressive muscle relaxation Meditation and Autogenic training.
Stressors
There are various sources which produced stress, where some are acute and some others are still chronic.
Holmes and Rahe (1967) stated that the greatest number of people faced stress due to the death of a spouse, divorce and marital separation as comparable to the change of residence, vacation and violation of law, etc.
Those who are living single are also facing stress.
Stress can start from the daily hassles of family to the work place or from the work place for family.