Being stressed is not something you can help, and you can't avoid stressors, but you can learn to copy with your stress. You can cope with stress by finding emotional, cognitive, or behavioral ways to lessen it. Some stressors can be directly solved, through problem-focused coping. An example would be if you're in a fight with your brother, you can go directly to your brother and solve your issues. If problem-focused coping doesn't work, we might use an emotion-focused strategy, which means we can reach out to friends to help address our own emotional needs.
There are many factors that affect our ability to cope such as our feelings of personal control, our explanatory style, and our supportive connections. When we perceive a loss of control, we became vulnerable to ill health. A person who has control over their personal life, experiences less stress and the longer they live. When a person doesn't have control over their life, they are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease and live shorter than someone who has control over their life.
Another factor that affects our ability to successfully cope with stress is our explanatory style, which basically means whether our basic outlook is optimistic or pessimistic. In 1992, psychologists Michael Scheier and Charles Carver observed that optimists have more control, cope better with stressful events, and generally have better health. Optimistic students in their last month of a semester have reported less fatigue and fewer coughs, aches, and pains. Mayo Clinic states that optimists tend to outlive pessimists.
The last factor that affects coping with stress is supportive connections, or social support. Those with close friends and social support, cope with stress much better than those who don't have that advantage. Individuals with social support have people to vent to, talk to their problems to, and get advice on problems, so their stress level isn't so high because they get to take their stress out. Individuals with no one to talk to, have much higher stress levels because they have so much bottled up inside and this causes them to always worry about things, never letting them out.
There are many factors that affect our ability to cope such as our feelings of personal control, our explanatory style, and our supportive connections. When we perceive a loss of control, we became vulnerable to ill health. A person who has control over their personal life, experiences less stress and the longer they live. When a person doesn't have control over their life, they are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease and live shorter than someone who has control over their life.
Another factor that affects our ability to successfully cope with stress is our explanatory style, which basically means whether our basic outlook is optimistic or pessimistic. In 1992, psychologists Michael Scheier and Charles Carver observed that optimists have more control, cope better with stressful events, and generally have better health. Optimistic students in their last month of a semester have reported less fatigue and fewer coughs, aches, and pains. Mayo Clinic states that optimists tend to outlive pessimists.
The last factor that affects coping with stress is supportive connections, or social support. Those with close friends and social support, cope with stress much better than those who don't have that advantage. Individuals with social support have people to vent to, talk to their problems to, and get advice on problems, so their stress level isn't so high because they get to take their stress out. Individuals with no one to talk to, have much higher stress levels because they have so much bottled up inside and this causes them to always worry about things, never letting them out.