stress

Often stress is defined by just looking from the stimulus or the response of someone. Definition of the stress stimulus in an environment focused on events such as natural disasters, hazardous conditions, disease, or quit working. This definition involves the assumption that the situation was very stressful but do not pay attention to individual differences in evaluating events. While the definition of the stress response refers to the state of stress, a person's reaction to stress, or are in a state under stress (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).

Definition of stress by just looking from the stimulus experienced by a person, has its limitations because it does not pay attention to individual differences that affect the assumptions regarding the stressors. Whereas if the stress is defined from the response, then there is no systematic way to identify which ones will be a stressor and what does not. To recognize it, need to see the reaction that occurs first. In addition, many responses may indicate that psychological stress when in fact it is not a psychological stress. Of explanation, it seems that the response can not be reliably assessed in response to psychological stress in the absence of a reference stimulus (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).

In short, all the stimulus-response approach refers to the crucial question about the stimulus that generates a certain stress responses and responses that indicate certain stressors. Which defines the stress is the stimulus-response relationships were observed, not the stimulus or response. Stimulus if the stimulus is a stressor produces a stressful response, and stressful to say the response when the response is generated by the demands, whipping, threats or load. Therefore, stress is a relationship between the individual and the environment by individuals considered a burden or exceed its strength and threatening the health (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).