Secondary Appraisal

One thing that everyone in the entire world has in common is stress. Hans Selye an endocrinologist, is the man who discovered stress. What is stress exactly? In our textbook, it gives us a definition, it is a process whereby an individual perceives and responds to events that one appraises as overwhelming or threatening to one’s well-being (Spielman,2017). There are two important types of appraisals, primary and secondary. When a stressor experiences harm or a threat that turns into a primary appraisal. For example, if I was the best employee working in retail and a new employee came in and made better sales than I did, I would consider her a threat or a challenge. When a threat is perceived it may initiate a secondary appraisal. A secondary appraisal is being able to have options available to cope with a stressor. For example, When my sister and her friend took her children to the park, I

Chronic is long-term and acute is short-term. Chronic stressors extend over a period of time. Some forms of chronic stress is caring for your loved one that has a terrible disease. Acute stressors is the most common form of stress, is when you induce a strong emotional response such as, if a soldier that just came home from a deployment got hit by an IED (improvised explosive device) while deployed, heard a loud bang they would instantly drop to the floor. The soldiers reaction was from a traumatic event. Life changes can also cause someone to become stressed. I for one, when I had to move away from my hometown and move to a completely different place I became distress for many years. Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS), which is a popular scale that was designed to be able to measure stress. It consists of forty three potentially stressful events, even of which has a numerical value quantifying how much readjustment is associated with the event (Spielman,