Abstract: After we review the basic distinctions among types of stress, and between the biological and engineering models for stress, we elaborate a two-way classification of stressors, based on the chronicity of the stressor and the level of social context at which the stressor occurs. This classification allows a conceptual map of most of the kinds of events and social conditions commonly thought of as stressors. We consider the development of stress research since 2000, with special attention given to the impact of macroevents such as 9/11 on the direction of stress research. We argue that these events have especially directed attention to the study of contextual stressors and traumatic stressors. At the same time, there has also been a steady increase in the study of chronic stressors, in part, due to the affinity between chronic stress and related concepts that echo the problem of structurally based continuous stress—"stress in other words."
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-06-25
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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