...3/09/2015 Health Essay 1: College Stress College students are one of the biggest groups of people that are suffering through a deep stress in their daily life. They are having many difficulties in college that they are not used to it because college is just example of being a responsible adult in a real life which is challenge for them especially when they finish high school. The first years students are the ones that are having the hardest time dealing with stress in college because they live in a new environment which they need to get used to comparing to those who have attended college for years. The conditions of depression that college students put in through their daily life are their personal life, living in a new environment and responsibilities. College student’s personal life is a way that can cause the majority of them to have a difficult time in class and cause stress because occasionally they don’t have time to study that much and they need to do their daily tasks such as going to work, or going to a mechanic to fix their car or picking someone specially if they have kids. College students who are parent have even a hard time to focus on class because they need to take care of their kids. This caused many of them to overload since they are doing more work than what they need to do which cause their bodies to pass their limits. The outcome of college students to overload is deep depression, tired, and change of attitude. Living in a new environment is tough for...
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...well-being. In the first instance, this essay will shed light on the diet, why it is important and the damaging effects it can have on the body. As an individual who has been labelled as clinically obese, I am interested in the nutrition that the body requires, the quality of the food being consumed and whether certain dietary elements have addictive traits. I will then go on discuss how the social factors, poverty and housing influence health before exploring how the psychological factors, stress and behaviour also impact on health. Diet Diet refers to a balanced selection of foods that we regularly consume for nutritional purposes, however the term has become associated to a restrictive dietary regime that an individual has adopted to lose weight, usually for health or aesthetic reasons. From a sociological perspective, diet may be the consumption of food for nutritional purposes, but it is also closely related to class, upbringing, identity and culture. Some sociologists have associated high energy and nutritionally poor diets to those with a lower social status. They believe that the quality of diet reflects the socioeconomic standing and state that “energy-rich but nutritionally deficient foods tend...
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...www.theinternationaljournal.org > RJSSM: Volume: 02, Number: 04, August-2012 Page 1 Role of Interpersonal Relationship in Stress Healing and Improved Job Performance: an empirical study conducted in Gomal University, KPK Pakistan Mrs Safia Bashir Gandapur, Assistant Professor, Law college, Gomal University, D.I.Khan Prof Dr. Shadiullah Khan, Dean Faculty of Arts, Gomal University, D.I.Khan Prof Dr.Mohammad Bashir Khan, Dean Faculty of Management Studies in Islamic International University, Islamabad & Director Research Iqra University Islamabad Abstract This study explores the role of interpersonal relationships as an impact factor in stress healing and job performance among Gomal University teachers. The determinants of stress healers which have been investigated include the role of relationships with family members, close relatives, friends, and colleague teachers and with management including the principal/head of the department. The sample consists of 250 Gomal University teachers including 110 male and 40 female teachers. Primary data for this study was collected through a questionnaire which was tabulated and analyzed using the SPSS. A Pearson product moment coefficient was computed to assess the level of association between the dependent and independent variables. One way ANOVA was calculated to see the homogeneity coefficients and check the equality of variances and the mean difference between the groups of variables. Paper starts with an introduction...
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...allows doctors to consider other diagnoses that may be involved when someone is coughing rather than just assuming he or she has a common cold. Medical professional also benefit by treating patients’ efficiently if he or she is aware of their medical condition. In addition, to ease the diagnosis break down of illness the multifactorial model has divided these factors into six categories: biological factors, environmental factors, behavioral, stressors, personality, and sociocultural factors. Biological factors include genetic components, family medical history, gender, and age. Generally, people think that just because their families’ medical history consists of high-risk medical conditions that he or she will be diagnosed with them too. In most instances, individuals do not consider that age and gender also play high role in health. For example, diabetes is a hard disease to detect according to the American Diabetes Association. “Diabetes often goes undiagnosed because many of its symptoms seem so harmless” (American Diabetes Association, 1995-2011). Another disease hard to diagnose is cancer. Diabetes as well as cancer have claimed the life’s of many humans. Based on Better Medicine website “there are no early symptoms for many cancers, in some cases, symptoms do not appear until cancer has...
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...gradually develop as time continues to pass. Some of the most drastic changes are the physical changes that can have a profound effect on the way a person at this stage of life view themselves. Common health problems that evolve during this age The physical modification people in this stage of life may experience varies depending on many factors that contribute to one's health. Smoking, drinking alcohol, unhealthy eating habits and stress can all negatively affect a person's health and increase the chance of acquiring the common health issues middle-aged adult face. Common health issues include Cancer, Diabetes, Hypertension, Arthritis, High Cholesterol and Weight gain, all of which have a direct connection to one another. Hypertension In middle adulthood, the body starts to change and evolve in more ways than one. The metabolism starts to slow down, and health problems are more common to arise at this point. There are various common health problems that we see at this age, and a more common one is Hypertension also known as high blood pressure. The higher one's blood pressure becomes, the harder their heart has to work to pump. Hypertension can stem from a variation of things such as smoking, alcohol consumption, obesity, etc. Addressing hypertension can be done medically or with a few lifestyle changes like weight loss, stop smoking, less alcohol consumption, less sodium intake in your diet. A regular exercise regimen or a combination of both medical treatment and...
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...Arousal, Behavior, Stress, and Affect Paper Lauretha Morris PSY 355 January 24, 2012 It is necessary to understand the difference between physiological and psychological needs due to the changing in our environment. There is a close behavior pattern between the brain structure and motivation behavior that is very helpful in understanding the habits which are formed to be unhealthy to individuals. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs postulates that the needs of a person are organized into an ascending structure, going from lower physiological needs to the needs of safety, belongingness, esteem, and self- actualization (Deckers, 2005). The difference between physiological and psychological needs is that physiological is physical and it tends to deal with our thought processes and the way that the brain works. A cognitive neuroscience and focuses on the branch of biology dealing with functions and the activities of living organisms and their parts which include all the physical and chemical processes are what physiological psychology is known as. Something such as a drug, a physiological reaction would often refer to how the body physically reacts. Organisms, organ systems, organs, cell and bio molecules carry...
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...general population lived in poverty. 30 percent of custodial single mothers and their children lived in poverty. Moreover, thirteen million kids live in poverty in the U.S. The children living in poverty are affected in many different ways psychologically, socially, and physically. The federal poverty guideline for a family of four is $23,050.00 and that guideline compares to a median U.S. household income of $50,054.00 (Breslow, 2012). Many of these single mothers living in low income have low education. Nationally, over 80 percent of families headed by a parent without a high school diploma lives in poverty, compared to 54 percent of families headed by a parent a high school diploma, and only 22 percent of families headed by a parent with at least some college education. Single mothers live in poverty because they lack higher education and are products of poverty themselves. Lack of Education Thirty years ago less than twenty percent of birth occurred to single women. Today that number has doubled. At one time race was a huge factor, however. Today, education is a key factor. In 1990, ten percent of birth occurred to white single mothers with some sort of post-secondary education, however, they did not have a degree. Today, that number has tripled. For women with a high-school diploma or less, the number is sixty percent. The number is eight percent for women with a college degree of any race (Forbes, 2012). Education is a very important factor in keeping...
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...their own health is at state, individuals who care for people with dementia normally have a high morbidity. Mostly encountering effects are influenced by the caregiver demographic and personal characteristics, resources and support system. Even consideration of the patient's level of impairment, hours caring for them and if a spouse or adult child. Although the caregivers health is not the responsibility of the patient's health, caring for someone is a clinical...
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...the relationship that stress has on not only your daily life and your body, but the tricks it can play on your mind as well. The mind and the body work together. What the mind may perceive as truth, the body will begin to act it out. Therefore, it is important that we recognize that not only can stress play tricks on our minds, but it can also be a source or a cause of disease. Stress and disease are most definitely related and can be seen working together as in previous studies. Stress can also contribute to one’s ability to make rational and wise, rather than emotional and regrettable decisions. As previously stated,” I can relate to these on both the personal and practical points of view. As, I have dealt with stress from time to time in my own life. Learning to manage it is critical. When it comes to stress and disease, there may not at first seem to be a connection. I have heard that stress causes ulcers. Yet not many people consider ulcers as a disease, just a mere ailment. Upon reading the article published I can see how the two are related and may lead to illness. It is true that once a person is sick or has become ill, the mind takes over, and often times leads to unnecessary panic, or worry. Unnecessary panic or worry can then lead the mind (psychologically) to believe more is wrong with the person, than actually is. Making your mind believe almost anything leads me to understand the truth in this fact. Also, the presence of stress can contribute to how...
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...diet that includes enough fruit or vegetables a family history of high blood pressure consumingA normal heart pumps blood around the body easily, at a low pressure. High blood pressure means that your heart must pump harder and the arteries have to carry blood that’s flowing under greater preThis puts a strain on your arteries and your heart, which in turn increases your risk of a heart attack, a stroke or of suffering from Heart attack If you have high blood pressure you’re also more at risk of having a heart attack or developing heart disease in the future. Because of the increased strain on your heart and blood vessels, untreated high blood pressure can cause, angina (chest pain and breathlessness caused when the blood supply to the muscles of the heart is restricted) and may eventually lead to a heart attack. The symptoms of a heart attack vary from one person to another. You may feel tightness or pain in your chest. This may spread to your arms, neck, jaw, back or stomach. For some people, the pain or tightness is severe, while others may feel nothing more than a mild discomfort. As well as having chest pain or discomfort you may feel light-headed or dizzy and short of breath. You may also feel nauseous or vomit. The sooner you get emergency treatment, the greater your chances of survival and the more of your heart muscle can be saved. kidney disease.ssure. too much saltOther effects of high blood pressureHigh blood pressure can also cause kidney damage and damage...
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... Eating behavior under stress Term paper for ‘Empirical Social Research’ Summer Semester 2012 Student Names: Lena Business Psychology Table of contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 How we conducted our task 1 2 Definitions 2 2.1 Stress 2 2.1.1 Positive stress 2 2.1.2 Negative stress 2 2.1.3 Origin of ravenous appetite under stress 2 3 Methodology 3 3.1 Survey research 3 3.2 Secondary data 3 4 Research Question and Hypotheses 4 5 Self-conducted survey 5 5.1 Survey 6 5.2 Outcome 6 5.3 Reliability, Validity and Causality 7 6 Secondary Survey 10 6.1 Survey 10 6.2 Outcome 11 6.3 Comparison between the two surveys 12 7 Conclusion 13 8 Bibliography 14 9 Appendix 16 10 Affidavit 1 Introduction ‘Stressed is Desserts spelled backward’ was already stated by Brian Luke Seaward (2001). This term paper discusses the issue of changing eating behavior in stressful times as in the students’ case: exam periods. Exam periods mean for most of the students a high level of stress due to lack of time for studying...
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...Stress Students attending college are subjected to varying amounts of stress depending on what classes they enroll in from semester to semester. But the classes a student takes is not where the stress begins it really begins when a student even thinks about going to college. Then when they start registering for classes and applying for financial aid the stress level is multiplied. Another huge stress factor for students is also when they must live on campus away from home for the first time and around complete strangers. Yet even another high stress factor for college students is trying to maintain a high grade point average. Before a student is able to enroll into the classes that they want, they have to stress over the application process of the college that they want to attend. The prospective student has to fill out a mountain of paperwork that is contained in the college packet. At some colleges students even have to write an essay along with their application. Even after all this paperwork there is still the overwhelming amount of paperwork required for applying for financial aid to complete. After the packets of paperwork for admissions and for financial aid are completed there is still the long drawn out process of waiting for a response from the student’s college of choice to contact them to let them know if they have been accepted into the school and if they have been approved for financial aid. Each day that the potential student has to wait seems like an eternity...
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...Sources of stress among college students Amina Iftikhar M.Phil Kinnaird College for women Lahore Abstract: The present study is conducted to investigate the sources of stress among college students. The hypothesis “determines what sources of stress are the most prevalent among college students, and to examine the nature of these stressors.” The manifest anxiety scale was used to obtain the scores of male and female students. The sample consists of 100 students 50 males and 50 females from different colleges of Lahore. Data was gathered from Queen Mary College Lahore, Kinnaird College Lahore, Forman Christen College Lahore, and Punjab College Lahore. In Western countries the vast amount of researches has been conducted on this issue. More researches are needed to investigate the nature of theses stressors for college students and which stressors are most prevalent in college lives. However these researches are not applicable in Pakistan due to cultural, economic, and educational variations. The main objective of current research work was to study the sources of stress among college students. The research used to determine the major sources of stress among college students and also find out the most prevalent stressor in college life and study the nature of these stressors. The Taylor manifest anxiety scale was used Anxiety scale was originally designed by Taylor (1895-1953). The scale is used to identify subjects with high and low anxiety level. In order to study the affects...
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...Name: Course: Lecturer: Date: The social determinants of health are the living and the working conditions which influence people’s health. Therefore our health is also affected in part by the social and economic opportunities available to us. Discussed below are the identified social factors affecting health in our society. Stressful conditions making people to be anxious and worried damage ones health. Stressful circumstances make it hard to engage in physical activities or even practicing health eating habits since the body energy is focused on dealing with day to day challenges (Brunner & Marmot, 2006). Stress also leads to prolonged biological reactions which strains the physical body. Therefore, continuous stressing circumstances will result to weakening of the resistance to diseases of the body and interferes with the functioning of the hormonal and metabolic systems. According to Brunner & Marmot (2006), the improvement of health may only be achieved if living conditions are improved and therefore, focus must be placed on solving the source of the problems instead of dealing with the underlying symptoms. Another social factor affecting health is the distribution of income. This is because it is the level of incomes which shapes how people live. Low incomes results to social and material deprivation as the basic needs are a challenge to meet for the low income earners (Raphael, 2010). Food, clothing and shelter are the prerequisites of health and for the...
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...Abstract Psychology and health problems go hand in hand. There are several diseases that can be caused when a person does not control the level of stress they have in their life. An unhealthy lifestyle consists of stress, depression, eating high fat foods, and not exercising enough. The more a person knows about how to control their stress levels will help them to deal with some of the diseases that they might get and will also help them to live healthy to control the risk of getting any unhealthy diseases. In this paper I will strive to describe what the multifactorial model is and how it relates to the diagnosis of illnesses. I have also selected two health problems which I will explain what role psychology has played in understanding and managing these problems. The health problems that I have selected are coronary heart disease and menstrual problems. The multifactorial model is described as the belief that health and illnesses are a function of several factors that involve biological, psychological, and cultural domains, and how they interact with each other (Nevid & Rathus, 2005). People might wonder how some people become ill easily and some don’t, or maybe why some people are affected by health problems while others are not. According to the multifactorial model there isn’t one answer to why this happens. There are many factors that include genetics and lifestyle choices. Genes play a role in a person having a chance of getting certain diseases, but they do not...
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