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Learn how different factors, such as past experiences and personality traits, influence your response to stress. Discover the key to resilience and how to view challenges positively. Find out how to build a support system to cope effectively with stress.
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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 • 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.
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
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.