1. Chapter 1 What is Stress? McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

2. 1-2 Overview u Examines the etiology of stress by tracing its roots in four common ways of defining stress u Describe how the author’s new definition of stress integrates these four common views of stress

3. 1-3 Outline u Many researchers and theorists have contributed to defining what stress is F Early physiological research pioneers F Psychological stress researchers F The holistic health/wellness movement u A new definition of stress

4. 1-4 Stress Is Universal But Different for Different People n Everyone experiences stress n To be alive is to be stressed n Stress means different things to different people

5. 1-5 What Is Stress? n Four common ways of defining stress u Stress as _______ u Stress as a ________ u Stress as a _______ _______ phenomenon

6. 1-6 Stress as Response n The early pioneers u Claude Bernard F milieu interieur u Walter Cannon F homeostasis u Hans Selye F General Adaptation Syndrome—GAS

7. 1-7 Stress as Stimulus n Psychological stress researchers n Holmes and Rahe u life events approach

8. 1-8 Stress as a Transaction n Other psychological stress researchers u Simeons F _________ threats u Lazarus F threat _________ model

9. 1-9 Stress as a Transaction n A person perceives a stimulus as __________. n This transforms it into a stressor, _________ the stress response

10. 1-10 Stress as a Holistic Health Phenomenon n Stress can be better understood in the context of one’s functioning level across six dimensions of wellness

11. 1-11 Author’s Definition of Stress n Stress is a holistic ________ between an individual and a __________ stressor resulting in a stress response

12. 1-12 To Understand This Explanation of Stress... n Potential stressors only become actual stressors when they are perceived as being beyond one’s ability to cope with n Determined as a result of a transaction between the individual, the potential stressor, and the environment in which the transaction occurs n Holistic transaction because it is influenced by the person’s overall well- being level

13. 1-13 Chapter 1: What Is Stress? n Summary n Questions