stress
- This term may have been borrowed from engineering and physics where stress refers, for example, to a force applied to an object such as a spring resulting in deformation or "strain". When applied to human emotions or psychology this term acknowledges that events, conditions, and circumstances (forces) of life can result in symptoms or impairment of functioning (strain).
- This term is also sometimes used as a synonym for anxiety.
Also: problem, stressor, stressful, stress-diatheses model
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- Chrousos, George; McCarty, Richard; etc. Stress: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Implications Hardcover 1996 | Paperback 2001
- Cohen, Sheldon (Editor), et al Measuring Stress - A Guide for Health and Social Scientists Hardcover 1995 | Paperback 1998
- Dohrenwend, Bruce Philip (Editor) Adversity, Stress and Psychopathology Hardcover 1998
- Gotlib, Ian H. (Editor), Wheaton, Blair (Editor) Stress and Adversity over the Life Course - Trajectories and Turning Points Hardcover / Published 1997