Stress part 5

Organisational stressors[edit]
Studies conducted in military and combat fields show that some of the most potent stressors can be
due to personal organisational problems in the unit or on the home front. [22] Stress due to bad
organisational practices is often connected to "Toxic Leadership", both in companies and in
governmental organisations.[23]

Stressor impact[edit]
Life events scales can be used to assess stressful things that people experience in their lives. One
such scale is the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale, also known as the Social Readjustment Rating
Scale, or SRRS.[24] Developed by psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe in 1967, the scale
lists 43 stressful events.
To calculate one's score, add up the number of "life change units" if an event occurred in the past
year. A score of more than 300 means that individual is at risk for illness, a score between 150 and
299 means risk of illness is moderate, and a score under 150 means that individual only has a slight
risk of illness.[11][24]

Science and medicine[edit]

 Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition

 Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a
word in a phrase or sentence
 Stress (mechanics), the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material
exert on each other
 Occupational stress, stress related to one's job
 Psychological stress, a feeling of strain and pressure
 Surgical stress, systemic response to surgical injury