Consequences Of Stress

Kushaal Saraf Luv Kumar Jain Shivank Kedia Himashu Rawtani

Stress
The experience of opportunities or threats that people perceive as important and also perceive they might not be able to handle or deal with effectively.

Work Stress
Stress is the mental and physical condition that results from a perceived threat that cannot be dealt with readily.
Stress has productivity, legal, and human consequences. Stress can result from both negative and positive situations. Stress creates psychological, physical, and behavioral health problems.

Stress
Stressor: Any demand, either physical or psychological in nature, encountered during the course of living. Stress: The pattern of emotional states and physiological reactions occurring in response to demands from within or outside an organization. Cognitive Appraisal: A judgment about the stressfulness of a situation, based on the extent to which someone perceives a stressor as threatening and capable of coping with its demands. Strain: Deviations from normal states of human functioning resulting from prolonged exposure to stressful events.

Aspects of Stress
Stress can be experienced because of both opportunities and threats. The threat or opportunity experienced is important to a person. The person who is experiencing an important opportunity or threat is not sure that he or she can effectively deal with it. Whether people experience stress depends on how they perceive potential opportunities and threats and how they perceive their capabilities to deal with them.

Potential Sources of Stress

Environmental Factors
Economic uncertainties of the business cycle Political uncertainties of political systems Technological uncertainties of technical innovations Terrorism in threats to physical safety and security

Potential Sources of Stress

Organizational Factors
Task demands related to the job Role demands of functioning in an organization Interpersonal demands created by other employees Organizational structure (rules and regulations) Organizational leadership (managerial style) Organizations life stage (growth, stability, or decline)

Potential Sources of Stress (contd)

Individual Factors
Family and personal relationships Economic problems from exceeding earning capacity Personality problems arising for basic disposition

Individual Differences
Perceptual variations of how reality will affect the individuals future. Greater job experience moderates stress effects. Social support buffers job stress. Internal locus of control lowers perceived job stress. Strong feelings of self-efficacy reduce reactions to job stress.

Individual Differences
Personality: Several personality traits are important for understanding why workers exposed to the same potential source of stress may differ in the extent to which they actually experience stress.
Neuroticism, openness to experience, selfesteem

Ability: Stress can be experienced when workers lack the abilities necessary to perform their jobs.
Lack of experience may also increase stress.

Social Support
The friendship and support of others, which help minimize reactions to stress. Sources:
Cultural norms Social institutions Friends and family

Benefits:
Boosting self esteem Sharing information Providing diversion Giving needed resources

Consequences of Stress
High Levels of Stress

Physiological Symptoms

Psychological Symptoms

Behavioral Symptoms

Lower immunity to diseases

Stress uses a lot of energy that is vital to keep our body defences high against diseases. When the energy is used up for stress, the body becomes only partially equipped to deal with outside illnesses as well as diseases such as cancer. Cancer cells can easily multiplicate when theres not enough energy to destroy them.

Weight loss/weight gain

In the majority of cases stress causes weight gain, but some people experience weight loss. It all depends on how you react to stressful situations. Even if you dont overeat when you become stressed, you will still gain weight because the energy that should be used to digest your food is now used to cope with stress.

Decreased ability to heal

When the body suffers from a lot of stress or is in a chronic stress, the secondary functions of the body (such as to heal itself) is temporarily shut.

This prevents quick healing and your body weak.

Depression

If you suffer from a lot of stress this will wear you out and cause you to lose zest for life. You will see only the negative sides of any situation and this will make you upset or even depressed. When you get regularly stressed, you train yourself to focus on the things that make you upset or angry.

Hair loss
Stress slows down hair growth and continuous stress can cause hair loss. Stress also causes gray hair or the hair can become thinner and split ends may appear. This again happens because the energy for keeping hair strong and healthy is used to fight present or fictional stressor.

Inability to sleep

Stress causes people to always be on the alert for real or potential danger. This is likely to affect your sleep the sleep may not be deep enough or you may not get sleep at all. If you manage to fall asleep, any sound may wake you up and it will be very difficult to fall asleep after this disturbance.

Heart problems
When you get stressed, the adrenaline released for the fight or flight response makes your heart beat faster than usual.

When this happens often your heart is forced to overwork and this can cause many different heart problems and illnesses.

Diabetes
Im not a doctor but as far as I know stress causes the increase of sugar levels in blood. This somehow can cause diabetes if you often get stressed.

Emotional imbalances/phobias/anxieties
Stress alters the chemical balance in the blood as well as your nervous system. This can cause all kinds of emotional problems, mood swings, phobias and anxieties.

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