Stress factors

Factors Influencing Stress Tolerance

Some people seem to be able to withstand the ravages of stress better than others can. Why? Because a number of moderator variables can reduce the impact of stress on physical and mental health. To shed light on differences in how well people tolerate stress, we'll look at five key moderator variables: social support, hardiness, optimism, sensation seeking, and autonomic reactivity. As you'll s...

Factors in Urban Stress

Effect of Stress on Coronary Risk Factors

In India, a survey indicates the prevalence of 30 times increase in hypertension among urban dwellers, compared with 10 times in rural inhabitants.1 Urbanization together with a change in life style, diet, and job stress, has been attributed in causing hypertension.Stress can cause hypertension by elevating the blood pressure (BP) and by stimulating the nervous system leading to the production ...

Rhythmical Factors in Stress Shift

In phrases such as THIRteen MEN, stress in the first word is shifted forward from its canonical word-final position. Our general hypothesis is that this stress shift is controlled in part by the global rhythmical pattern of the utterance, informally defined as a Rhythmic Constraint on onset times of stressed vowels, in real time. This hypothesis yields two specific predictions about the occurre...

Stress Factors During Cattle Slaughter

Monitoring animal welfare at a slaughterhouse is somehow different from the situation on the farm. The throughput numbers can be very high, and there is no possibility to know the individual history, background or habits of each animal. The animals are unfamiliar to the staff and viceversa. Furthermore, most animals will be unknown to each other even if they may be delivered in groups or batche...