While the physical environment can be a stressor is social where most of the situations that cause it are given. While some authors have considered life changes, loss of important people or relationships, new employment status or birth of a child, to give some examples, such as stress triggers, others point out that the daily events, small disappointments, being more frequent and next to the person may alter further health. It is possible that both types of list and mutually determined.
We can consider the stress as a process that starts when a person perceives a situation or event as threatening or overwhelming their resources. Often the facts that are put in place that are related to changes require individual great distress and thus endanger their personal welfare.
The popularity has reached the issue of stress, but highlights concerns for today, has also led to some confusion of the concept and an excess in its pathologizing.
Stress does not always have negative consequences, sometimes their presence represents an excellent opportunity to launch new personal resources, strengthening self-esteem and increasing the chances of success on future occasions.What determines the appearance of the subjective state of discomfort or distress?
The same fact is not equally stressful for everyone, even in all circumstances or moments of life for the same subject. there are several factors that determine:
- The way to evaluate the occurrence and / or coping skills: while someone, such a promotion can be considered as a threat to another can be a personal challenge.
- The way to deal with the difficulties deny the problem, or postpone launch of self-control behaviors, to name a few, entails different consequences on the perception of stress.
- Personal characteristics: people have different styles of reacting to circumstances that require an effort on our part, are traits that although they can not be regarded as definitive, it is true that are consolidated with the accumulation of experiences, such as emotion or stress reactivity. The tension or nervousness are individual variables, both in perception and in its consequences.
- Social support: the number and quality of relationships an individual maintains can serve as buffers or amplifiers of potentially stressful events, and the ability to ask for advice or help.
