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    This document discusses different types and categories of stressors. It describes stressors as physical, physiological, or psychosocial. Examples are given for each category. Stressors can also occur through normal life transitions. Stressors are further classified as daily frustrations/hassles, major complex occurrences affecting large groups, or less frequent events directly impacting individuals. Daily hassles have a cumulative health impact over time. Major events influence large populations or nations. Infrequent stressors studied most include life events like death, marriage, or retirement. A stressor's duration can also define it as acute, a sequence, chronic intermittent, or chronic enduring.

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    This document discusses different types and categories of stressors. It describes stressors as physical, physiological, or psychosocial. Examples are given for each category. Stressors can also occur through normal life transitions. Stressors are further classified as daily frustrations/hassles, major complex occurrences affecting large groups, or less frequent events directly impacting individuals. Daily hassles have a cumulative health impact over time. Major events influence large populations or nations. Infrequent stressors studied most include life events like death, marriage, or retirement. A stressor's duration can also define it as acute, a sequence, chronic intermittent, or chronic enduring.

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    This document discusses different types and categories of stressors. It describes stressors as physical, physiological, or psychosocial. Examples are given for each category. Stressors can also occur through normal life transitions. Stressors are further classified as daily frustrations/hassles, major complex occurrences affecting large groups, or less frequent events directly impacting individuals. Daily hassles have a cumulative health impact over time. Major events influence large populations or nations. Infrequent stressors studied most include life events like death, marriage, or retirement. A stressor's duration can also define it as acute, a sequence, chronic intermittent, or chronic enduring.

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    Stressors exist in many forms and categories.

    They may be described as


    physical, physiologic, or psychosocial. Physical stressors include cold, heat, and
    chemical agents; physiologic stressors include pain and fatigue. Examples of
    psychosocial stressors are fear of failing an examination and losing a job. Stressors
    can also occur as normal life transitions that require some adjustment, such as
    going from childhood into puberty, getting married, or giving birth.
    Stressors have also been classified as: (1) day-to-day frustrations or hassles;
    (2) major complex occurrences involving large groups, even entire nations; and (3)
    stressors that occur less frequently and involve fewer people. The first group, the
    day-to-day stressors, includes such common occurrences as getting caught in a
    traffic jam, experiencing computer downtime, and having an argument with a
    spouse or roommate. These experiences vary in effect; for example, encountering a
    rainstorm while one is vacationing at the beach will most likely evoke a more
    negative response than it might at another time. These less dramatic, frustrating,
    and irritating eventsdaily hassleshave been shown to have a greater health
    impact than major life events because of the cumulative effect they have m
    over time. They can lead to high blood pressure, palpitations, or other physiologic
    problems (Jalowiec, 1993).
    The second group of stressors influences larger groups of people, possibly
    even entire nations. These include events of history, such as terrorism and war,
    which are threatening situations when experienced either directly, in the war zone,
    or indirectly, as through live news coverage. The demographic, economic, and
    technological changes occurring in society also serve as stressors.
    The tension produced by any stressor is sometimes a result not only of the
    change itself, but also of the speed with which the change occurs.
    The third group of stressors has been studied most extensively and concerns
    relatively infrequent situations that directly affect the individual. This category
    includes the influence of life events such as death, birth, marriage, divorce, and
    retirement. It also includes the psychosocial crises described by Erikson as occurring
    in the life cycle stages of the human experience. More enduring chronic stressors
    have also been placed in this category and may include such things as having a
    permanent functional disability or coping with the difficulties of providing long-term
    care to a frail elderly parent.
    A stressor can also be categorized according to duration. It may be:

    An acute, time-limited stressor, such as studying for final examinations


    A stressor sequencea series of stressful events that result from an initial
    event such as job loss or divorce
    A chronic intermittent stressor, such as daily hassles
    A chronic enduring stressor that persists over time, such as chronic illness, a
    disability, or poverty

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