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An Interface with Stress: Causes and Preventions
This book entitled “An Interface with Stress: Causes and Preventions” is a creation based on observations about people, be it children, youngsters, adults, or old people running for life. Children are facing competitions, parents’ pressurizing expectations and unlimited aspirations, youngsters are busy under the strain of higher studies for preparing them for jobs, high status and comfort, adults are stressed because of job conditions, hectic daily routine, hassles, family life, children related problems etc.
This book comprises of nineteen chapters which try to cover up main areas of stress, be it physiology, psychology of stress or social stress, organizational stress, natural calamities, children under stress, family and stress, etc. It also deals with various coping strategies and role of nutrition and de-stressors in one’s life. After reading this book one may get the picture of stress from every angle possible and also get information about various coping strategies for each of them plus one may also get insights into preventive measures which may inoculaten them against stress. This may also add to one’s confidence in facing life.
This book may prove worthwhile for all, be it common public, students of psychology, graduates, post-graduates and researchers, players, patients, clinicians, sports psychologists, health conscious people, etc. All those who want to increase their awareness about stress and how to deal with it, may find the book useful.
The highlights of this book are that it’s subject matter has been presented in simple english, examples are from indigenous areas. All can grasp it easily. Diagrams, tables, boxes have been made to illustrate the important topics. Professionals may also benefit from it.
This book may serve its purpose of enriching people about stress knowledge and methods of coping with an ever persisting devil in one’s life `Stress’.
Ambalika Sinha
Dr. Ambalika Sinha is a lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Social Science in Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. She is Ph.D. in Psychology, in the area of stress. She has twenty-five papers published, presented in various journals, books, conferences and seminars. She has done MBA from IGNOU. She is Guiding research scholars in the area of stress, competitiveness ets. She is well versed in the courses she teaches like Organizational Behavior, Principles of Management, human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Indian social Organization, Industrial Psychology
She has represented her institute in many conferences like International conferences on Health Behavioural Sciences, Tokyo (1999), Fourth Regional Conference of international Association of Cross Cultural Psychology, Kathmandu (1992) Third convention of National Academy of Psychology, Meerut University (1992), 5th Congress of National Academy of Psychology, Allahabad University (1994), National Seminar of Community Psychology, APS. University, Rewa (1999), National Seminar of Identity in Youth Socio-Cultural Perspective, Allahabad University, (2004), National Conference on Impact of Globalization on Education. Culture and Personality. A.D.C., Allahabad (2005). National Seminar on Liberalization and Empowerment of Women in India, Allahabad (2005).
She has also done ISTE course: Training on Knowledge Management and its Implications in Indian Business. Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, 2004. She hopes the readers find this book informative, interesting and meaningful for lemming about stress
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Contents |
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Preface |
(ix) |
1 |
What is Stress? |
1-15 |
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1.1 Stress |
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1.2 Stressful events from lowest to highest magnitude and the coping Strategies |
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1.3 Selyes’s General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) |
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1.4 Why Change Life Style (A Preventive Measure for Stress Occurrence) |
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1.5 Present-Future scenario of Stress if motivators influence |
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2 |
Stress: Concepts and Theories |
17-25 |
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2.1 Related terms |
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2.2 Theoretical explanations for stress |
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3 |
The Human Physiology and Stress |
27-40 |
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3.1 The brain in stress and health |
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3.2 The Thyroid glands and thyroxin |
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3.3 Natural defences of Immune system |
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4 |
Psychological Elements in Stress System |
41-54 |
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4.1 The Mind’s Suspence and Psyche |
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4.2 cognition |
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4.3 Factors leading to stressful appraisals |
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5 |
Family Under Stress: Various Problems and Coping Styles |
55-71 |
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5.1 Chain for family stress |
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5.2 The ABCX model of family stress |
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5.3 Coping with family stress: stages |
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6 |
Social Factors and Stress |
73-88 |
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6.1 Social theory of stress |
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6.2 Impact of social change on personality stability |
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6.3 Professional and Life crises |
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6.4 Coping with life change |
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7 |
Children Under Stress |
89-127 |
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7.1 Factors influencing the severity of stress |
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7.2 Typical steps in coping with adjustive demands |
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8 |
Age Related Stress |
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8.1 Stochastic Theories |
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8.2 Programmed theories |
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8.3 Physical change during adult years |
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8.4 Physical changes during mid-life |
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8.5 Physical changes in late life |
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8.6 Consequences of Stress |
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8.7 Five golden principals to a stress free Life |
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9 |
Persona And Stress |
129-158 |
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9.1 Theoretical perspective on Personality |
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9.2 Hypertensive Personality – A view |
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9.3 The Cancerous Personality |
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9.4 Personality stress and infertility link |
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9.5 Personality of an alcoholic |
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9.6 Three personality traits link with stress and health |
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10 |
Environmental Stressor |
159-171 |
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10.1 Theories of environmental stress |
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10.2 Major stressors |
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10.3 Coping with outcomes of disasters |
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11 |
Stress Victims |
173-191 |
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11.1 Fear : A Mental Prison |
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11.2 Factors of victimization |
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11.3 Victimization avoidance |
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11.4 Life style evaluation |
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11.5 Proper selection of time |
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11.6 Awareness of high risk-places |
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11.7 Select self defeating measures carefully |
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11.8 Behavioural adjustment |
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11.9 Errors of attribution |
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11.10 The victim’s profile |
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11.11 Beliefs about crime |
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11.12 Beliefs in personal invulnerability |
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11.13 Severity of Crime |
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11.14 Suggested steps for managing fear from victimization |
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11.15 Social actions to coping with victimization |
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12 |
Job Stress |
193-206 |
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12.1 Definition of job stress |
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12.2 Stress sources |
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12.3 Individual stressors |
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12.4 Outcomes for the organization |
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12.5 Coping strategies for stress |
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12.6 Special group facing work stress |
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13 |
Nutrition, Exercise, health and Stress |
207-227 |
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13.1 Role of dies on stress |
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13.2 Exercise health and stress |
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14 |
Stress Management Exercises |
229-241 |
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14.1 Relaxation Techniques |
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15 |
Stress and Time Management |
243-263 |
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15.1 Need for time management study |
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15.2 Attitude towards time |
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