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Describe what psychologists have learned about the control and management of stress
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Describe what psychologists have learned about the control and management of stress Psychologists have defined stress in many different ways. Lazarus and Launier (1978), regarded stress as a transaction between people and the environment. They have also differentiated between stress as being harmful and damaging (distress) and positive and beneficial (eustress). Psychologist Kelly's (1967, 1972) attributional theory examines the control of stress in terms of attributions for casualty. If applied to a stressor, the cause of a stressful event would be understood in terms of whether the cause was controllable by the individual or not. Bandura in 1977 discussed self-efficiency and control of stress as individual confidence. Self-efficiency refers to an individual's confidence to carry out a particular behaviour. Categories of control, these are five different types of control on stress defined by Thompson (1986). Behavioural control (avoidance), cognitive control (reappraisal of coping strategies), decisional control (choice of possible outcome), informational...
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