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| Concept | Key Detail |
|---|---|
| Selye's GAS | Alarm → Resistance → Exhaustion (1936) |
| Eustress vs. Distress | Positive motivating stress vs. harmful chronic stress |
| Yerkes-Dodson Law | Optimal performance at moderate arousal (inverted-U) |
| Occupational Stress | Role conflict, ambiguity, overload, lack of control |
| Demand-Control Model | Karasek (1979): High demand + Low control = highest stress |
| Burnout | Maslach (1981): Emotional exhaustion + Depersonalisation + Reduced accomplishment |
| Burnout vs. Stress | Stress = overengagement; Burnout = disengagement |
| Type A Personality | Competitive, time-urgent, hostile; high cardiovascular risk (Friedman & Rosenman) |
| Type B Personality | Relaxed, patient, lower stress susceptibility |
| Big Five | OCEAN; Neuroticism = highest stress predictor; Conscientiousness = protective |
| Hardiness | Kobasa (1979): Commitment + Control + Challenge |
| Locus of Control | Internal = less stress; External = more perceived helplessness |
| Problem-focused Coping | Targets stressor source; effective for controllable stressors |
| Emotion-focused Coping | Regulates emotional response; effective for uncontrollable stressors |
| Tend-and-Befriend | Taylor (2000): Women's oxytocin-mediated stress response (vs. fight-or-flight) |
| Double Burden | Women: paid work + unpaid domestic/care work = higher occupational stress |
| MBI | Maslach Burnout Inventory: standard burnout measurement tool |
| OSI | Srivastava & Singh (1981): Indian occupational stress measure |
| Transactional Model | Lazarus & Folkman (1984): Primary + Secondary appraisal determines stress |
| MBSR | Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction; Jon Kabat-Zinn (1979) |