Student : Vu Phuong Thao Class: I9A1 Instructor: Ms. Dan Huyen, M.A
Hanoi, 2014 June
ACKNOWLEDGMENT First of all, I want to send the most respectful thank to Ms. Dan Huyen, M.A and Ms. Nguyen Thi Hang, M.A – my admirable and enthusiastic tutors for the great direction, suggestions and advice. She provided me on the way we do our research. I could not do such a great job without her comments. Second, it would be such a big regret without saying “thank you” to people who answered our survey questions. I know that all of you spent your valuable time on helping me and I cannot do anything without this. Anyway, the only thing I can do now is saying thank you again.
Contents
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Today, there are many pressures in human life. Pressures of work, school, family, and having too much pressure will make people stress. For many people, living with stress is a way of life, now.
Melinda Smith, Robert Segal, and Jeanne Segal (2014) argue that stress is normal physical response which occurs when people danger, feel threatened or lose the balance – whether it’s real or imagined. This reason is the body’s way of protecting people. In the short time and with small dose, stress helps people concentrated, energetic, face with challenges, warn and also giving extra strength in emergence. However, exceeding a certain point, stress becomes harmful and dangerous to health, mood, relationships and quality of life.
Furthermore, according to Bernard Seal (1998) stress can cause the illness not only direct ways but on also mediate ways. Beyond a certain unit, stress makes people more sensitive to be illness and heart diseases, the body’s immune system tend to decrease the diseases - fighting effectiveness, so people are be