Stress, The Carry-Over Effect, And Gender Differences
What is Stress, How is it Measured, The Carry-Over Effect, and Gender Differences.
Abstract This paper defines stress and how the definition has changed since early stress researchers and some of the methods ways of measuring stress. The Social Readjustment Rating Scale, Daily Hassles Scale, and using an fMRI machine to look at the activity in the brain, are all different ways to measure the stress in our daily lives. This paper also talks about the Carry-Over Effect and how it affects our everyday lives and even the stages we go through in our lives. It includes a study conducted on college students and the stress that comes with school and how it can spillover into their everyday lives. The last topic this paper …show more content…
He and his colleagues alleged that these ordinary irritations in our daily lives might be important factors of stress. They created the Daily Hassles Scale, measuring 117 daily hassles, occurrences that annoy and upset people, in life. Different parts of the scale was developed for different groups, such as children and college students. Some examples of daily hassles include, concern about your weight, concern about the health of a family member, not enough money four bills, too many things to do, misplacing things or losing them, traffic, or car repairs (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 500 &501). A young adult college student is considered going through a transitional development between late adolescent and adulthood, called emerging adulthood. (Mahmound et al. 149-156) The students daily hassles are increased class workload, troubling thoughts about your future, problems or fighting with your boyfriend/girlfriend, computer problems, wasting time, concern about failing a course, worried about money, or concern about not meeting high standards. Each of these hassles may not effect or bother you as one but when you go through the day and experience multiple hassles, they add up taking a toll on you. They have been linked to psychological distress and physical symptoms such as headaches, shoulder pain or headaches due to tight shoulders, or back pain. The number of daily hassles that people endure is a better predictor of physical illnesses and symptoms than is the number of major life events we will experience. (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 500
Abstract This paper defines stress and how the definition has changed since early stress researchers and some of the methods ways of measuring stress. The Social Readjustment Rating Scale, Daily Hassles Scale, and using an fMRI machine to look at the activity in the brain, are all different ways to measure the stress in our daily lives. This paper also talks about the Carry-Over Effect and how it affects our everyday lives and even the stages we go through in our lives. It includes a study conducted on college students and the stress that comes with school and how it can spillover into their everyday lives. The last topic this paper …show more content…
He and his colleagues alleged that these ordinary irritations in our daily lives might be important factors of stress. They created the Daily Hassles Scale, measuring 117 daily hassles, occurrences that annoy and upset people, in life. Different parts of the scale was developed for different groups, such as children and college students. Some examples of daily hassles include, concern about your weight, concern about the health of a family member, not enough money four bills, too many things to do, misplacing things or losing them, traffic, or car repairs (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 500 &501). A young adult college student is considered going through a transitional development between late adolescent and adulthood, called emerging adulthood. (Mahmound et al. 149-156) The students daily hassles are increased class workload, troubling thoughts about your future, problems or fighting with your boyfriend/girlfriend, computer problems, wasting time, concern about failing a course, worried about money, or concern about not meeting high standards. Each of these hassles may not effect or bother you as one but when you go through the day and experience multiple hassles, they add up taking a toll on you. They have been linked to psychological distress and physical symptoms such as headaches, shoulder pain or headaches due to tight shoulders, or back pain. The number of daily hassles that people endure is a better predictor of physical illnesses and symptoms than is the number of major life events we will experience. (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 500