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Response to Stress

Response to Stress. Spring 2013. How you respond to stress. Depends on how you assess a situation Is this situation a threat to my well being? Do I have the necessary resources to meet the challenge? Time Energy Skills Experiences. Your past experiences.

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Response to Stress

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  1. Response to Stress Spring 2013

  2. How you respond to stress • Depends on how you assess a situation • Is this situation a threat to my well being? • Do I have the necessary resources to meet the challenge? • Time • Energy • Skills • Experiences

  3. Your past experiences • You might see a pop quiz as a greater threat than your classmate because you need to maintain a certain grade to be eligible to play a sport. • You might have done poorly on past pop quizzes.

  4. Your personality • Optimist: Focus on positive aspects of a situation. • Pessimist: tendency to focus on the negative and expect the worst. • Perfectionists: Accepts nothing less than excellence

  5. Resilience • High Resilience: View stressful events as challenges rather than threats. • Accept that you cannot be perfect • Take pride in the things you do well • Don’t focus on your mistakes. Learn from them and move on • Recognize that change is a normal part of life • Key factor in resilience if having a support system of family and friends.

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