Stress Management

Stark's primary thesis is that stress is relative--what one person might consider stressful in a negative way, another might view positively, seeing it as a challenge or a thrill. Stark cites studies done on high school athletes with "Type T," or thrill-seeking, personalities, which indicate that such students were less prone to injury-related absences. The conclusion was that such students, motivated by their thrill-seeking personalities, were "more tolerant of negative events" (p. 163). Resistance to stress can come from a variety of factors. One is personality, such as that seen in "Type T" people, mentioned above. Another is biology. The ability to resist stress may be genetic, or, conversely, genes may make people prone to particular sorts of stress-related illnesses (p. 163). A third source of stress resistance--or, more precisely, stress management--is simply acquiring the ability to recognize stressful situations and learning how to deal with stress successfully.

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ng methods are relative, too. Someone who dislikes physical activity would likely find an hour of vigorous aerobic exercise far more stressful than stress-lessening, for example, and a workaholic might find a quiet hour of meditation anything but refreshing. Therefore, a person must exercise care when deciding how to combat stress so that he or she does not accidentally add to an already overwhelming stress burden in the process of trying to relieve it. Stark's assessment of stress and its consequences largely reiterates the information found in Nevid, Rathus, and Greene (1997, pp. 152-197). All agree that stress can play a major role in maladies including headaches, gastrointestinal disorders, heart disease, cancer, and AIDS. All also agree that a number of options, such as exercise, help to reduce stress and the dangers associated with it. Both sources also acknowledge that other factors, such as biology and personality, contribute to the effect stress can have on an individual. In her assessment of these "other factors," however, Stark (1992) differs most from Nevid, Rathus, and Greene (1997). Stark says, for example, that "[a] growing body of evidence indicates that some people are biologically more stress-resistant
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