BPCS 186 MANAGING STRESS UNIT-4 OVERVIEW
IMPORTANT TOPICS OF UNIT 4 :-
- Effect of stress on health
- Effect of stress on relationship
These three topics are most important from the exam point of view. So, you all should read it carefully. Below we have explained the full chapter very easy way, you will understand it very quickly.
UNIT- 4 EFFECT OF STRESS (NOTES)
TOPICS :-
- Effect of stress on Health
- Effect of stress on performance and productivity
- Effect of stress on relationships
4.1 EFFECT OF STRESS ON HEALTH
Stress has an impact on the physical health of an individual. A number of illness like cardiovascular disorders, aches and pain, ulcers, debates, asthma and even cancer.
Stress can have an impact on the immune system of the individual and thus the individual become easily prone to varied infections and illenesses.
A stress for long period of time will have the heart working worktime for a longer period of time, and that can lead to development of cardiovascular disorders.
Lifestyle of the individual, including diet and nutrition, physical exercise, consumption of alcohol and drugs and so on.
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Prolonged stress can also cause hypertension as sympathetic nervous system gets activated and blood pressure increases and remains increased for a longer period of time.
Stress is one of the factors that can also lead to individuals developing asthma.
Extreme stress can also lead to development of post traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). Individuals developing PTSD after experiencing a natural calamity like earthquake or Tsunami.
Stress have a negative effect on one’s physical health as well as mental health.
4.2 EFFECT OF STRESS ON PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY
Stress can have a negative impact on cognitive functioning or performance of the individual, which can be for a short term or for long period of time.
Prolonged stress can affect memory, attention and concentration of the individual. Stress can lead to worrying constantly, for getting, lack of judgment, racing thoughts and overall performance and productivity down.
Stress has a negative effect on the executive functioning of an individual the includes tasks like, making plans, reasoning, management of one’s life, problem solving and soon.
The performance also as the stress increases, however a certain point where stress continues to increase, the performance affected and goes down.
Students experience stress as well can experiencing such a decline in cognitive functions and may not pay attention to subject matter.
When employee experience stress for a longed period of time, the outcome could be affective exhaustion, decreased organizational commitment.
That stress can have a negative impact on the work life of the individual that suffer on the work life balance of the individual.
4.3 :- EFFECT OF STRESS ON RELATIONSHIP
Individual are not islands but are independent on each other’s.
Stress is experienced by an individual, he/she will become irritable and may also express anger.
Inadequate coping strategies employed by the individuals may also lead to behaviours that may negative affect the individuals relationships with others.
Individual who are under stress that many problems are facing. Even problem solving and making decision abilities of the person get affected and certain decision he/she affected.
Stress can also affect communication and thus the individual experiencing stress may not filters what he/she wants to say and may induge in using harsh and unpleasant language.
Stress can be termed as contagious, where when a partner is undergoing stress, the other partner will also experience stress.
The day to day experiences that we go through from traffic jams, pollution, fast pace of life, overuse of technology can lead to building up of stress within us and if these have an impact on not only health and well being but also one’s relationships.
IMPORTANT QUESTION ARE UNIT 4 :-
- Discuss the effect of stress on health and relationship.