GENERAL CONCEPT OF STRESS

The best known for this thesis is Epictetus, who, referring to happiness and unhappiness, said that the events themselves are not positive or negative, but we are the ones who give them such meanings, and these in turn make us happy or unhappy2. [...]Epictetus' "unhappiness", meaning...

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Published in:Research and science today 2019-11 (2), p.208-214
Main Author: Sfinteș, Costina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Anxiety
Brain
Defense mechanisms
Dictionaries
Epictetus (55-135)
Fear conditioning
Happiness
Judgment
Judgments
Mental depression
Organic chemistry
Psychology
Stress
Theory
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Summary:The best known for this thesis is Epictetus, who, referring to happiness and unhappiness, said that the events themselves are not positive or negative, but we are the ones who give them such meanings, and these in turn make us happy or unhappy2. [...]Epictetus' "unhappiness", meaning fear, anxiety, depression are conditioned by the presence of the respective chemicals secreted in the brain, which, to a certain extent, may be under our control. Besides Epictetus there were other people who suggested the same thing, for example Cicero, who said that grief does not depend on the negative reality of things, but on an objective judgment of the mind, and as the solid balance of the mind depends on right knowledge, so his troubles are the result of wrong judgments. Selye's classification is supplemented by other authors with other types of stress and stress agents, using various criteria. [...]acute or short-term stress (minutes, hours) and chronic or long-term stress (days, months) are differentiated; cumulative (longitudinal) and multiple (transversal) or independent stress; major, minor and potential stressors; central and peripheral stressors; informational stress; continuous and discontinuous stressors, respectively intermittent, and on the other hand, single or repeated stressors; physical and psychological or mental and social agents, and there are combined forms. The study was conducted on a sample of 845 American managers grouped by size of organization, its result indicating that the relationship between the level of managerial stress and the size of the organization is inversely proportional. [...]in the simplest way, stress is the reaction that any person can have when they cannot adapt to the demands, responsibilities and expectations that they have to face in their personal life, family or work place.
ISSN:2247-4455
2285-9632