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    The document summarizes key points from a study on stress management. It finds that preventative and proactive approaches to stress management are most helpful. Specifically, prevention such as planning and avoiding stressors is the most predictive competency. However, people are generally poor at prevention. The study also found that people with training in stress management have better skills and that increased training hours correlate with better skills. Additionally, it notes strong correlations between higher stress management test scores and greater happiness, lower stress levels, and higher personal and professional success. Therefore, stress management is seen as both trainable and beneficial.

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    The document summarizes key points from a study on stress management. It finds that preventative and proactive approaches to stress management are most helpful. Specifically, prevention such as planning and avoiding stressors is the most predictive competency. However, people are generally poor at prevention. The study also found that people with training in stress management have better skills and that increased training hours correlate with better skills. Additionally, it notes strong correlations between higher stress management test scores and greater happiness, lower stress levels, and higher personal and professional success. Therefore, stress management is seen as both trainable and beneficial.

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    PSYCH 101 Reading #17 April 25,2019

    Notes by CRV

    Fight the Frazzled Mind


    A new study suggests that preventive, proactive approaches are the most helpful—and that our
    stress management IQ is painfully low

    An approximate relationship between stress—our internal, adverse reaction to stimuli we


    perceive as threatening—and stressors—the threatening stimuli that actually surround us

    Four broad, trainable skill sets or “competencies” people can use to manage stress
    nondestructively:
    source management (reducing or eliminating the sources of stress)
    relaxation (practicing techniques such as breathing exercises or meditation)
    thought management (correcting irrational thinking and interpreting events in ways that don’t
    hurt you)
    prevention (planning and conducting your life so that you avoid stressors)

    Study: how an ethnically and racially diverse group of 3,304 people managed stress
    People with good stress-management skills would be not only less stressed but also happier
    and more successful both personally and professionally
    Affects relationships (parenting)

    A Surprise, a Lesson, and a Dire Need


    Prevention: most helpful competency (via regression analysis)
    Source management: sometimes reactive but usually proactive
    Least predictive: relaxation ( proactive and reactive) and thought management (reactive)

    (1) people who have had training in stress management are better at it than people who have
    not
    (2) the greater the number of training hours, the better the skills

    New data: people are poor at prevention

    The Importance of Stress Management

    high positive correlation between test scores and the overall level of happiness people reported
    strong negative correlation between the test scores and the level of stress people were feeling
    strong positive correlations between test scores and both the personal and professional success
    people had experienced

    Stress management is both trainable and beneficial


    Great challenge: to teach techniques for managing stress to a public that knows little about
    them and, especially, to educate our children before the big stressors hit

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