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Stress and Emotional Stability

Stress and Emotional Stability. What is stress?.

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Stress and Emotional Stability

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  1. Stress and Emotional Stability

  2. What is stress? • A mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health, usually characterized by increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure, muscular tension, irritability, and depression.

  3. Hypothesis • It was hypothesized that our stress measure would be negatively correlated with the emotional stability sub scale of the IPIP.

  4. Methods • A questions were developed for the stress scale by brainstorming from personal experience. • Administered self report survey to research methods class. N = 107

  5. So, was there a relationship? • Yes, there was a negative correlation between emotional stability and stress • r = -.662 (Pearson) • y = 45.095 + -.719x

  6. The negative relationship between emotional stability and stress

  7. So what does this mean? • As the level of stress increases the level of emotional stability decreases • As the level of emotional stability increases the level of stress decreases • Correlation does not imply causation!

  8. Does this make sense?

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