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Critical Thinking Exercise
Stress
As a college student, you are probably very familiar with stress. As noted in your textbook, life is filled with events or situations that produce stress—potential stressors. Think back to times when you felt distressed by the stress in your life; was it helpful? Did it serve a purpose? Now think back to times when you believe that stress was useful and served an important role in your success (e.g., studying for your final exam). The goal of this activity is to not only identify sources of stress, but to also provide strategies for dealing more effectively with it.
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Make a list of five stressors that are currently affecting you or have affected you in the recent past.
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Are any of the stressors on your list positive events? For example, students often look to graduation as a major achievement and are excited about the possibilities that await them.
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Refer to Tables 12.1 and 12.2 in your textbook. Try to classify each of your stressors as a life change or a daily hassle.
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Provide three examples of how stress can have a negative impact on your health.
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List individual factors that contribute to stress. Do your personality and emotions contribute to your reactions to stressors?
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Using research from your textbook, as well as an online Web site or article, list five strategies that can help reduce stress. Are there strategies that can help you cope with daily stressors? Explain. Include the URL for the Web site that you used to answer this question.
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According to the blank model, whether we experience stress depends largely on our blank the event and the resources we have to deal with the event.
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One large survey of college students found that blank percent reported having been exposed to a traumatic event during their lifetime.
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When confronted with stress, Riley has an optimistic explanatory style. Her sister Madison has a pessimistic explanatory style. How do the sisters’ coping styles differ?
Suggested Answer: People like Riley, who have an optimistic explanatory style, tend to use external, unstable, and specific explanations for negative events. In contrast, individuals like Madison, who have a pessimistic explanatory style, use internal, stable, and global explanations for negative events. As a pessimist, Madison is likely to experience more stress than Riley.