Describe the three levels of people's response to stress

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Stress responses are multidimensional, including emotional, physiological, and behavioral realms. Emotional responses commonly elicited by stress include negative ones like annoyance, anger, rage, apprehension, anxiety, fear, dejection, sadness, and grief. However, contrary to common sense, positive emotions do not vanish during times of severe stress.

Physiological effects of stress include the fight-or-flight response, and the general adaptation syndrome identified by Hans Selye who began studying stress to determine the effects of chronic stressors. In the general adaptation syndrome, the individual goes through three stages: the alarm stage occurs when an organism recognizes a threat and mobilizes resources; the resistance stage occurs when the stress is prolonged; and the exhaustion stage occurs when the body's resources are depleted.

Behavioral responses to stress are referred to as coping responses. Coping refers to active efforts to master, reduce, or tolerate the demands created by stress. These may involve giving up and blaming oneself (learned helplessness—passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events), striking out at others aggressively (usually the result of frustration), self-indulgement (eating, drinking, smoking, shopping), defensive coping (erecting defense mechanisms), or constructive coping (realistically appraising situations and confronting problems directly).