1. CONCEPTUAL
PERSPECTIVES
OF STRESS
PRESENTED BY-
ANJALI RAI
ROLL NO.-07
MPMIR 4th SEMESTER

2. STRESS
• Derived from Latin word “stringere”
• Optimum level of stress is necessary for good
performance
• Selye(1956) GAS:
Alarm
Resistance
Collapse

3. CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
STIMULUS PERSPECTIVE
RESPONSE PERSPECTIVE
TRANSACTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

4. STIMULUS PERSPECTIVE
• Environmental situations as new,
rapid changing, sudden, demanding...
• External stressor gives rise to stress
reaction, or strain within the individual(Cox, 1978)
• Social situations which require the focal person to
make excessive adoptive effort
• 8 types of stressful situation(Weitz)-
speeded information processing, noxious
environmental stimuli, perceived threat, disrupted
psychological function, isolation, confinement,
frustration, group pressure, blocking

5. RESPONSE PERSPECTIVE
• The way in which the individual
handles the perceived stressors-the defences it
mobilizes and the alarm reactions ignited
• STRESS –an imbalance between the requirements
to make an adoptive response and the repertoire
of the focal person
• “Stress is the non-specific response of the body
to any demand made upon it”-Selye(1966)

6. TRANSACTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
• Transaction between the person
and his environment
• Demand to which there are no
readily available adaptive responses
• Cognitive appraisal
• Coping responses
• “Stressfulness of stimulus exposure or event is
dependent upon the pattern of stimulus-organism
interaction in a particular time and a particular place”-
Appley & Trumbell
STRESS=CAD>CAS

7. STAGES OF STRESS
• Perception of noxious,
problematic, demanding
situation
• Cognitive appraisal
• State of emotional disequilibrium followed
by psycho-physiological and bio-chemical
responses
• Adoptive or coping efforts

9. STRESS
STRESS is Deviant psycho-physiological
state of the individual resulted from a
situation cognitively appraised as
excessively demanding and requiring the
focal person to make some adoptive
efforts to cope with it.”

10. CONCLUSION

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