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| stress | a person’s physical and mental reaction to his or her inability to cope with a certain tense event or situation |
| stressor | an event or situation that produces stress |
| stress reaction | the body’s response to a stressor |
| distress | the type of stress that stems from acute anxiety or pressure and is damaging or negative |
| eustress | positive stress, which results from motivating strivings and challenges |
| conflict situation | a situation in which a person must choose between two or more options that tend to result from opposing motives |
| anxiety | an unpleasant psychological state characterized by a vague, generalized appreshension or feeling that one is in danger |
| anger | a strong feeling of displeasure, resentment, or hostility with an irate reaction likely to result from frustration |
| fear | the usual reaction when a stressor involves real or imagined danger |
| social support | information that leads someone to believe that he or she is cared for, loved, respected, and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation |
| cognitive appraisal | the interpretation of an event that helps determine its stress impact |
| denial | a defense coping mechanism in which a person refuses to admit that a problem exists |
| intellectualization | a coping mechanism in which the person analyzes a situation from an emotionally detached viewpoint |
| progressive relaxation | an exercise performed by lying down comfortably and tensing and releasing the tension in each major muscle group in turn |
| meditation | a systematic narrowing of attention on an image, thought, bodily process, or exteral object with the goal of clearing one’s mind and producing relaxation |
| biofeedback | the process of learning to control bodily states to be controlled |
| autonomy | the ability to care of oneself and make one’s own decisions independently |
| developmental friendship | the type of friendship in which the partners force each other to reexamine their basic assumptions and perhaps adopt new ideas and beliefs |
| resynthesis | the process of combining old ideas with new ones and reorganizing feelings in order to renew one’s identity |
| career | a chosen pursuit, profession, or occupation in which a person works at least a few years |
| comparable worth | the concept that women and men should receive equal pay for jobs calling for comparable skill and responsibility |
