Psychology · Motivation & Emotion
A topic within Motivation & Emotion, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
2 works
Hans Selye
The original brief report proposing that a wide range of unrelated harmful agents provoke the same non-specific bodily response, founding the concept of biological stress and the general adaptation syndrome.
Sheldon Cohen, Tom Kamarck & Robin Mermelstein
Introduces the Perceived Stress Scale, arguing that how overloaded and unable to cope a person feels predicts illness better than simply counting the stressful events that have happened to them.
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