Identifying Stressors
Identifying Stressors
Identifying Stressors
H ealth H ints
an exhausting workload, insucient pay, oce politics, and conicts with your boss or co-workers. Social stressors: Your social situation can cause stress. For example, poverty, nancial pressures, racial and sexual discrimination or harassment, unemployment, isolation, and a lack of social support all take a toll on daily quality of life.1
perfectionism, low self-esteem, excessive or unexpressed anger, lack of assertiveness,1 and fears or apprehensions (e.g., fear of ying or heights; apprehension about speaking to strangers at a party).3 Whichever categories your stress falls into, a good way to start the process of managing stress is to rst identify the cause of it. Identifying the causes of your stress is a rst step toward nding strategies to reduce it.
Sources: 1. HelpGuide (2007). Understanding stress: signs, symptoms, causes, and eects [on-line]. Retrieved June 19, 2008. From http://www.helpguide.org/ mental/stress_signs.htm. 2. National Library of Medicine (2007). X-plain: managing stress reference summary [on-line]. Retrieved June 19, 2008. From http://www.nlm.nih. gov/medlineplus/tutorials/managingstress/htm/ index.htm. 3. Mayo Clinic (2006). Understanding your sources of stress [on-line]. Retrieved June 19, 2008. From http://mayoclinic.com/health/stress-management/ SR00031.
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