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the overarching belief that stress is either enhancing or debilitating for cognitive, psychological, affective, and hormonal outcomes
What is stress mindset?
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stress-is-enhancing mindset
Sally sees daily life stressors as challenges for which she has adequate resources to meet expected demands.
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What is the stress-is-enhancing mindset?
a mindset that one will be more likely to engage in actions that help meet the demand, value, or goal underlying the stressful situation (such that the stress is actively utilized toward enhancing ends)
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stress-is-debilitating mindest
Jack sees stressors as overwhelming events for which he is lacking internal resources to meet external pressures.
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What is mindset?
mental frame or lens that selectively organizes and encodes information, thereby orienting an individual toward a unique way of understanding an experience and guiding one toward corresponding actions and responses
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stress-is-enhancing mindset
When Eric feels stressed, he repeats to himself, "experiencing stress enhances my performance and productivity"
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the mindset where one holds the belief that stress has debilitating consequences for various stress-related outcomes such as performance and productivity, health and wellbeing, and learning and growth
What is the stress-is-debilitating mindset?
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stress-is-enhancing mindset
Katie is very stressed about her upcoming exam. Although she is stressed and overwhelmed, she chooses to look at stress as an opportunity for growth and sees the potential for stress to have a positive impact.
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Stressful experiences fundamentally change individuals for the better. The experience of stress can enhance the development of mental toughness, heightened awareness, new perspectives, a sense of mastery, strengthened priorities, deeper relationships, greater appreciation for life, and an increased sense of meaningfulness.
What is stress-related growth?
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stress-is-debilitating mindest
Carter shows reduced ability to adapt to stressful tasks, greater attention biases toward negative events, and heightened cortisol production. What mindset towards stress might he have?
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