Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
This chapter's big idea: Our experiences with stress and how we cope with that stress can affect both our physical and mental health.
1. Read this article
. Identify the stressors experienced by refugees both before leaving their country of origin and the stressors experienced here in their new home. Explain how the general adaptation syndrome applies to those experiences.
2. Read this article
. Referring to the sections in this chapter that cover coping with and managing the effects of stress, explain the many ways sports can help.
3.What is the relationship between feeling like you have control over your environment and stress? Thinking about this course, where do you feel like you have control and where do you feel like you lack it? Where you feel like you lack it, could the course be changed so that you would feel like you have more control?
4.Answer the questions on the Locus of Control Scale
. Use the worksheet on the second page of that file to determine your score. No need to report your scores.
Explain the difference between internal locus of control and external locus of control. Now imagine that one of your friends has more of an internal locus of control and another friend has more of an external locus of control. What would each friend say after losing a job? After failing a test? And after starting a new relationship? (Each response should specifically reference the job, the test, or the relationship.)