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  1. What Is Stress?
    1. What Is a Stressor?
    2. Person-Environment Fit
  2. Theoretical Contributions to the Study of Stress
    1. Fight-or-Flight
    2. Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
    3. Tend-and-Befriend
    4. Psychological Appraisal and the Experience of Stress
    5. The Physiology of Stress
  3. What Makes Events Stressful
    1. Assessing Stress
    2. Dimensions of Stressful Events
    3. Must Stress Be Perceived as Such to Be Stressful?
    4. Can People Adapt to Stress?
    5. Must a Stressor Be Ongoing to Be Stressful?
  4. How Stress Has Been Studied
    1. Studying Stress in the Laboratory
    2. Inducing Disease
    3. Stressful Life Events
    4. Daily Stress
  5. Sources of Chronic Stress
    1. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
    2. Long-term Effects of Stressful Life Experiences
    3. Chronic Stressful Conditions
    4. Chronic Stress and Health
    5. Stress in the Workplace
    6. Combining Work and Family Roles





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