Mental Disorders Mental disorders make up 15 % of the burden of diseases in established market economies. A mental illness is describe as any disturbance of emotional equilibrium, as manifested in maladaptive behavior and impaired functioning, caused by genetic, physical, chemical, biological, ps...
The numbers are added and the result is an index of the amount of change related stress the person has recently experienced * Pressure involves expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way * Pressure is strongly related to measures of mental health * 3 reactions to stress: 1.Emotional responses- as stress increases, mood becomes more negative * the inverted U hypothesis predicts that task performance should improve with increased emotional arousal * as a task becomes more complex the optimal level of arousal decreases 2.Physiological responses- the fight or flight response i...
