What is a stressor?
- The physical or psychological stimulus to which an individual responds. Also known as a demand.
What is a stress response?
- The generalized, patterned, mobilization of the body's natural energy resources when confronted with a demand or stressor.
The four mind-body changes our body goes through during a stressful situation:
1. Redirection of the blood to the brain and large muscle groups and away from the extremities, skin, and vegetative organs.
2. Powering up of the reticular activating system in the ancient brain stem, which leads to increased alertness.
3. Release of glucose and fatty acids, which are fuels that sustain an individual during this emergency period.
4. Shutting down of the immune system and the body's emergent and restorative processes, such as digestion.
The stress response leads to two outcomes or stresses:
1. Eustress: the healthy, positive, constructive outcome of stressful events and the stress response.
2. Distress: the unhealthy, negative, destructive outcome of stressful events or the stress response
- The physical or psychological stimulus to which an individual responds. Also known as a demand.
What is a stress response?
- The generalized, patterned, mobilization of the body's natural energy resources when confronted with a demand or stressor.
The four mind-body changes our body goes through during a stressful situation:
1. Redirection of the blood to the brain and large muscle groups and away from the extremities, skin, and vegetative organs.
2. Powering up of the reticular activating system in the ancient brain stem, which leads to increased alertness.
3. Release of glucose and fatty acids, which are fuels that sustain an individual during this emergency period.
4. Shutting down of the immune system and the body's emergent and restorative processes, such as digestion.
The stress response leads to two outcomes or stresses:
1. Eustress: the healthy, positive, constructive outcome of stressful events and the stress response.
2. Distress: the unhealthy, negative, destructive outcome of stressful events or the stress response
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A main reason employees get stressed at work is because they do not enjoy the job they do. Some reason they might not like their job are because their boss is too demanding, they have too many projects going on at once, or they think their job is boring. Let's look at the employees who are stressed because they think their job is boring.
Polarization
- These employees are failing to differentiate between authentic and false dichotomies.
- A contributing factor they are using is the neglect of middle ground. The neglect of middle ground is when there is the lack of "gray" words and hyphenated terms.
- These employees are saying work is either boring or not boring. They are neglecting to see that there are other way work could be besides boring or not boring.
- A corrective they could use is apply the "how-much" index. Apply the "how-much" index means to use quantifying and qualifying terms.
- When using this corrective, the employees could say, "Well work was boring today on Monday December 2nd, but it might not be as boring tomorrow on Tuesday December 3rd.
- A specific action that could be done is to find three or more choices of how work could be. Employees should change their attitudes of how work always is. For example, employees could say work could be boring, interesting, or rewarding. That would give at least three expectations of how work could turn out.
Polarization
- These employees are failing to differentiate between authentic and false dichotomies.
- A contributing factor they are using is the neglect of middle ground. The neglect of middle ground is when there is the lack of "gray" words and hyphenated terms.
- These employees are saying work is either boring or not boring. They are neglecting to see that there are other way work could be besides boring or not boring.
- A corrective they could use is apply the "how-much" index. Apply the "how-much" index means to use quantifying and qualifying terms.
- When using this corrective, the employees could say, "Well work was boring today on Monday December 2nd, but it might not be as boring tomorrow on Tuesday December 3rd.
- A specific action that could be done is to find three or more choices of how work could be. Employees should change their attitudes of how work always is. For example, employees could say work could be boring, interesting, or rewarding. That would give at least three expectations of how work could turn out.