Stress and Disease: Understanding the Cause-and-Effect Relationship
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Stress management, chronic stress, disease, health psychology, stress factors, psychological factors, stress response, individual coping, health risks, stress susceptibility
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This document discusses the complex relationship between stress and disease, highlighting the role of chronic stress and individual factors in the development of pathologies.
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[...] "The different forms of stress and their influence on sports performance",Bulletin of Psychology, vol. number 475, no pp. 69-72. Lourel, Marcel. "Stress and health: the role of personality. Presentation of some tools for evaluating personality",Research in Nursing Care, vol no pp. 5-13. [...]
[...] Thus, first of all, talking about the relationship between stress and disease is to avoid some pitfalls. In fact, according to Marcel Lourel, 'the term of stress is today very widely used in a wrong way to designate difficult life situations. ( . ) Stress is sometimes identified as a response of the organism exposed to potentially harmful situational conditions, sometimes as the result of an interaction between the subject and their environment, or again, the consequence of a dynamic transaction between the individual and the situation2 » (Lourel, 2006). [...]
[...] In this sense, variability remains great and we must understand a cause-and-effect relationship between stress and disease as conditioned by chronic stress, that is, over a long period of time. The critical factor associated with stress is therefore its chronic effect over time. Indeed, chronic stressors generally refer to the generalization, or even trivialization, of daily problems such as frustration with traffic jams, for example, work overload, financial difficulties, marital disputes, or family problems. However, many other factors can cause stress, but these are the common stressors encountered in daily life. [...]
[...] From then on, the individual's awareness of stress can allow them to listen to their own body and especially to understand the factors that influence stress. From then on, following our proposal, the notion of responsibility of stress on the appearance of the disease must be measured as both external and internal factors to the individual are numerous. However, chronic stress and its management (good or bad) by the individual can favor the appearance of a disease. Bibliography Fischer, Gustave-Nicolas, and Cyril Tarquinio. [...]
