The term ”stress” was first employed in a biological context by the endocrinologist Hans Selye in the 1930s. He later broadened and popularized the concept to include inappropriate physiological response to any demand. In his usage ”stress” refers to a condition and ”stressor” to the stimulus causing it. It covers a wide range of phenomena, [...]
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After 23 days of a 6 hours on, 6 hours off schedule to the electric shocks, the executive monkey died. Brady then tried various schedules, but no monkeys died from this. He then returned to the original 6 on, 6 off, and tested the stomachs of the Executives and found that their stomach acidity was [...]
The roots of periodization come from Hans Selye’s model, known as the General adaptation syndrome (GAS), describing biological responses to stress. Selye’s work has been used by the athletic community since the 1950s (Fleck, 1999). The GAS describes three basic stages of response to stress: (a) the Alarm stage, involving the initial shock of the [...]
The history of mindbody relaxation goes back two and a half thousand years to the origins of yoga. But the modern history of mindbody relaxation begins with Dr. Edmund Jacobson of the University of Chicago. In the 1920s he developed a technique called progressive relaxation, in which patients were taught to progressively relax their muscles. [...]
Eustress is a term coined by endocrinologist Hans Selye which is defined in the model of Richard Lazarus (1974) as stress that is healthy, or gives one a feeling of fulfillment or other positive feelings. Eustress is a process of exploring potential gains. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Eustress, under the G. N. U. Free [...]
His last inspiration for general adaptation syndrome (GAS, a theory of stress) came from an endocrinological experiment in which he injected mice with extracts of various organs. He at first believed he had discovered a new hormone, but was proved wrong when every irritating substance he injected produced the same symptoms (swelling of the adrenal [...]
The term ”eustress” was first used by endocrinologist Hans Selye in 1975, when he published a model dividing stress into two major categories: ”eustress” and ”distress”. This article was an expansion on an earlier article he wrote, where he discussed the idea of a General Adaptation Syndrome, or a system of how the body responds [...]
Walter Cannon and Hans Selye used animal studies to establish the earliest scientific basis for the study of stress. They measured the physiological responses of animals to external pressures, such as heat and cold, prolonged restraint, and surgical procedures, then extrapolated from these studies to human beings. Subsequent studies of stress in humans by Richard [...]
Sometimes we don’t realise how much the vocabulary of psychology has become part of everyday language.
Whether it?s called stress management, relaxation training, or its newest incarnation, ?Resiliancy,? it seems that the question of healthy response to the stress of daily life is on everyone?s mind. But it?s important to remember a few things about stress that are rarely discussed?if known at all!
1) Stress won?t hurt you. Hans Selye, the ?father of stress? was a polylinguist, whose first language was not English. Before he died, he said that, had his command of English b…
Stress is an unavoidable consequence of life. As Hans Selye (who coined the term as it is currently used) noted, “Without stress, there would be no life”. However, just as distress can cause disease, it seems plausible that there are good stresses that promote wellness. Stress is not always necessarily harmful. Winning a race or election can be just stressful as losing, or more so, but may trigger very different biological responses.
Stress Increases Productivity
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