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Consequences Of Stress

Kushaal Saraf

Luv Kumar Jain

Shivank Kedia

Himashu Rawtani

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Work Stress

Stress is the mental and physical conditionthat results from a perceived threat that

cannot be dealt with readily.

Stress has productivity, legal, and humanconsequences.

Stress can result from both

negative and positive situations.

Stress creates psychological,physical, and behavioral

health problems.

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Stress

Stressor: Any demand, either physical or psychological innature, encountered during the course of living.

Stress: The pattern of emotional states and physiological

reactions occurring in response to demands from within oroutside an organization.

Cognitive Appraisal: A judgment about the stressfulnessof a situation, based on the extent to which someoneperceives a stressor as threatening and capable of coping

with its demands.Strain: Deviations from normal states of humanfunctioning resulting from prolonged exposure to stressfulevents.

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Aspects of Stress

Stress can be experienced because of bothopportunities and threats.

The threat or opportunity experienced isimportant to a person.

The person who is experiencing an importantopportunity or threat is not sure that he or shecan effectively deal with it.

Whether people experience stress dependson how theyperceive potential opportunitiesand threats and how theyperceive theircapabilities to deal with them.

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Potential Sources of Stress

Environmental Factors Economic uncertainties of the business

cycle

Political uncertainties of political systems

Technological uncertainties of technical

innovations

Terrorism in threats to physical safety and

security

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Potential Sources of Stress

Organizational Factors

Task demands related to the job

Role demands of functioning in an organization

Interpersonal demands created by other employees Organizational structure (rules and regulations)

Organizational leadership (managerial style)

Organizations life stage (growth, stability, or decline)

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Potential Sources of Stress

(contd) Individual Factors

Family and personal relationships

Economic problems from exceeding earning capacity

Personality problems arising for basic disposition

Individual Differences Perceptual variations of how reality will affect the individuals

future.

Greater job experience moderates stress effects.

Social support buffers job stress.

Internal locus of control lowers perceived job stress. Strong feelings of self-efficacy reduce reactions to job stress.

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Personality: Several personality traitsare important for understanding whyworkers exposed to the same potentialsource of stress may differ in the extentto which they actually experience stress. Neuroticism, openness to experience, self-

esteem

Ability: Stress can be experienced whenworkers lack the abilities necessary toperform their jobs. Lack of experience may also increase stress.

Individual Differences

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Social Support

The friendship and support of others, which helpminimize reactions to stress.

Sources:

Cultural norms

Social institutions

Friends and family

Benefits:

Boosting self esteem

Sharing information

Providing diversion

Giving needed resources

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Consequences of Stress

High Levels

of Stress

Physiological

SymptomsBehavioral

Symptoms

Psychological

Symptoms

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Lower immunity to diseases

Stress uses a lot of energy that is vital to

keep our body defences high against

diseases. When the energy is used up for stress, the

body becomes only partially equipped to deal

with outside illnesses as well as diseases

such as cancer. Cancer cells can easily multiplicate when

theres not enough energy to destroy them.

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Weight loss/weight gain

In the majority of cases stress causes weight gain, but

some people experience weight loss.

It all depends on how you react to stressful situations.

Even if you dont overeat when you become stressed,you will still gain weight because the energy that should

be used to digest your food is now used to cope with

stress.

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When the body suffers from a lot of stress or is in a

chronic stress, the secondary functions of the body (such

as to heal itself) is temporarily shut.

This prevents quick healing and your body weak.

Decreased ability to heal

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Depression

If you suffer from a lot of stress this will wear you out and

cause you to lose zest for life.

You will see only the negative sides of any situation and

this will make you upset or even depressed. When you get regularly stressed, you train yourself to

focus on the things that make you upset or angry.

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Hair loss

Stress slows down hair growth and continuous stress can

cause hair loss.

Stress also causes gray hair or the hair can become

thinner and split ends may appear. This again happens because the energy for keeping hair

strong and healthy is used to fight present or fictional

stressor.

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Heart problems

When you get stressed, the adrenaline released for the

fight or flight response makes your heart beat faster than

usual.

When this happens often your heart is forced to overwork

and this can cause many different heart problems and

illnesses.

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Emotional

imbalances/phobias/anxieties Stress alters the chemical balance in the blood as well as

your nervous system.

This can cause all kinds of emotional problems,

mood swings,

phobias and

anxieties.

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