Chapter 16: Stress, Health and Coping
True or False
Remember – as you answer True or False, imagine explaining to a friend how you reached your decision.
Questions
- Stress in the workplace has physical, psychological and social costs.
- People who believe that their success is a matter of luck have an internal locus of control.
- Cortisol and adrenaline are neurotransmitters.
- Deep breathing and yoga are examples of physical stress management techniques.
- The inverted U hypothesis describes the impact of increasing arousal on performance.
- Selye proposed the concept of eustress to describe how stress impacts males and females differently.
- People suffering from presenteeism may continue working even when they are injured.
- Employees who survive in high-demand environments are described as “resilient”
- During our primary appraisal of a stressor, we evaluate our coping strategies.
- A person who believes that their success is the result of their own effort would be described as having an internal locus of control.
Answers
- true
- false
- false
- true
- true
- false
- true
- true
- false
- true