Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 93 No. 3, 2023.
Conference paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.93.3.3
Stress and Resistance to Stress
Dubravka Medak
; University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Psychological stress is a relationship between a person and the environment, which a person evaluates as a very demanding, or a relationship that exceeds one’s capabilities and threatens one’s well-being. Stresses can be divided according to their intensity into small daily stresses, major life stresses and traumatic life stresses. Depending on the duration, these stresses can be acute or chronic. During the stress assessment process, a person attempts to estimate whether a certain event from the environment is significant for one’s well-being or not. We distinguish between request assessment or primary cognitive assessment, and resource assessment or secondary cognitive assessment. The primary assessment includes: assessment of challenges, assessment of threat and assessment of loss / damage. The assessment of resources is secondary. The resources include: social resources, material resources and personal resources. There are two ways of coping with stress: problem - focused coping and emotion – focused coping. Problem - focused coping is more frequently used in situations where a person has a higher degree of control, while emotion - focused coping is more often used in situations where a person has a lower degree of control.
Keywords
psychological stress; demand appraisal; resource appraisal; problem - focused coping; emotion - focused coping
Hrčak ID:
311238
URI
Publication date:
12.12.2023.
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