Best Way to Deal With Stress

In Bernard Seal's article " Coping With Stress," he states how stress is related with personality. First, the person who can control the things that give them stress can reduce the bad result of stress. According to Jay Weiss's experiment, self-control rats that got less stress than other helpless rats. For this result, positive and helpful people had less ulceration than passive and helpless people. The author says, the person who can control pain might have an advantage over other people who don't have it. Second, the author states, when people are facing unexpected events they got more stress than people who already know the events will be coming. For example, a pop quiz can be a more stressful thing to students. Finally, the person who has 'stress-resistant personality' can cope with stress. People who have a 'stress-resistant personality' usually enjoy challenges. The author also states that people never facing stress ever, can be bored.

I agree with the author's opinion through some reasons. Positive people might get less stress, people can get stress when people face to unexpected events, and challenging person cope with stress better than others.

First of all, Positive people have less chance to get stress than negative people. Everything can be stressful to negative people, even if it was not a bad event at all. Even if it was a bad event, positive people might solve this event with a calm attitude. If they don't hurry and don't lose control, they can see the way of solution. Positive people might treat a stressful event as a common happening, so they will solve it easily.

Secondly, people can git more stress with unexpected events. If a professor didn't follow a schedule, it will be a stressor to students, because they will not prepare for this. Also people feel nervous about this event. Also it will embarrass people. If they are embarrassed, they will lose willpower and not try to solve the problem.

Third, a challenging person copes with stress well. If they have a relatively 'stress-resistant personality', they will enjoying challenge and cope well when they face stressful events. It can give benefit. They don't get stress from a pop quiz and they are not afraid of hard assignments. If they lose at soccer have or not get a high score, they will not get stress. Challenging person just wants to match with them again until he wins.

In conclusion, positive and helpful people have less stress than passive and helpless people. troublesome events can be less stressful bet unexpected events can be stressful. The person who enjoys challenge or difficult events gets less stress. People can get stress anywhere. It depends on you whether it will be stressful or not. Of you think positively and are not afraid of unexpected events, you will not get stress too much.

Seal, B.  (1988).  Coping with stress. In Academic encounters: Human behavior.  (pp. 15-16).  New York: Cambridge University Press.