Hi guys!! If someone could help me with these questions on stress i would really appreciate it
1. would you consider exercise to be a form of emotion-focused coping? i thought yes cause it assists in reducing the stress hormones in the body while also releasing feel-good endorphins. Also, is procrastination/substance use/oversleeping considered emotion focused coping? Again i think yes cause its like distraction
2. do eustress and distress have the same physiological response? if so, can they both be bad for your health then?
3. its hard to distinguish between major stress and catastrophes that disrupt entire communities (for example in Jacaranda TB it says natural disasters fall under both) so how would you distinguish the 2 and can you give examples that fall explicitly under each category?
Hey, my opinion towards your questions are as follows:
1) Yes, I would consider exercise as a form of emotion-focused coping. It involves distraction from the actual stressor and it also helps to deal with negative feelings associated with the stressor, again your trying to distract from the negative feelings associated with stressor, by let's say for example: going for a run. (You may also want to include the fact that exercise release endorphin that provides a sense of wellbeing and improves mood.
2) Yes both results in same physiological response because it is both activated by sympathetic NS. And probably I would say any stress that activates SNS in the long run, can result in negative effects to your health. But I doubt on whether an individual would experience eustress for a long period time.
3)Well Major stress is basically events that is intense and extreme that causes stress regardless of who experiences. ex: Robbery-usually everyone will experience distress when they lose their valuable belongings. Catastrophes are traumatic events that affects the whole community at the same time. For example if a city floods, it affects the whole community/city at the same time. I know it's confusing how the Jacaranda TB states that natural disaster falls under both but I think all it's trying to say is anyone who experience a natural disaster will experience stress hence it is a major stress and usually a natural disaster affects a whole community rather than a single person hence it is a catastrophe.
-I hope I have cleared your doubts
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