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| the unconscious preparation to fight or flee that a person experiences when faced with any demand |
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| the person or event that triggers the stress response |
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| the adverse psychological, physical, behavioral, and organizational consequences that may arise as a result of stressful events |
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| a steady state of bodily functioning and equilibrium |
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| the embodiment of a person's perfect self |
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| how a person sees himself or herself, both positively and negatively |
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| an imbalanced preoccupation with work at the expense of home and personal life satisfaction |
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| a cost associated with absenteeism, tardiness, strikes and work stoppages, and turnover |
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| a cost resulting from poor quality or low quantity of production, grievances, and unscheduled machine downtime and repair |
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| an organizational cost resulting from court awards for job distress |
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| a complex of personality and behavioral characteristics, including competitiveness, time urgency, social status insecurity, aggression, hostility, and a quest for achievement |
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| personality characterized by commitment, control, and challenge and, hence, resistant to distress |
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| a way of managing stressful events by changing them into less subjectively stressful events |
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| a healthy, secure, interdependent pattern of behavior related to how people form and maintain supportive attachments with others |
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| an unhealthy, insecure pattern of behavior that leads to separation in relationships with other people |
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| an unhealthy, insecure pattern of behavior that leads to preoccupied attempts to achieve security through relationships |
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| preventive stress management |
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| an organizational philosophy according to which people and organizations should take joint responsibility for promoting health and preventing distress and strain |
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| (the stage in preventive stress management) designed to reduce, modify, or eliminate the demand or stressor causing stress, positive thinking |
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| (the stage in preventive stress management) designed to alter or modify the individual's or the organization's response to a demand or stressor, physical exercise |
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| (the stage in preventive stress management) designed to heal individual or organizational symptoms of distress and strain, opening up to others |
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| discrepancy between the idealized self and the real self-image |
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| Achilles' heel phenomenon |
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| a person breaks down at his or her weakest point |
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