Stress & Health

Stress and Health
Submitted by Amy Sweetman amysweetman@earthlink.net

A. Conflict Worksheet Label the type of conflict that each scenario represents.

Approach/Approach Avoidance/Avoidance Approach/Avoidance Multiple Approach/Avoidance conflict

1. You have been accepted by two colleges; they are both equally ranked. One is close to your home so you would not have to move, but it is extremely expensive. The other is far from your home but it is affordable.
2. There are two dresses that you want to buy, but you only have money for one.
3. Tim is going to school and he hates living with his parents, but, if he leaves home, he will have to get a job to pay for his school and rent.
4. A 16- year-old girl is pregnant, although she knows she is not able to care for the baby, she is completely against abortion, but her parents tell her that if she does have the baby she will be thrown out of the house.
5. You have just managed to rent your dream apartment, but your work has offered you a high paying job that will move you to another country for six months. If you take the job, you will have to give up the apartment.
6. Mary and John have been friends for a while, and John wants the relationship to move to a more serious level, but he's not sure how Mary feels and he's afraid of losing her friendship.
7. Cole plays both baseball and basketball. His last basketball game of the season is on the same day and time of his opening day game of his baseball season.
8. Your room mate is driving you nuts. You like the apartment that you live in currently, but hate your room mate. If you move out, you will loose your deposit. You could rent an apartment by yourself, but you would have to live in a shabby place.
9. There are two classes that Mary wants to take; they are offered at 11:00 am on Mondays and Wednesdays.
10. Mary does not want to take Mr. Hughes for English, but there are no other times slots open this semester, so if she does not take his class now, she will have to postpone graduation.
11. You were issued a ticket that you want to fight in court, but you would have to take off from work and lose a days pay in order to do so.
12. You have the money to buy a new car, but the one that you want has high insurance rates.

B.      The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale

Take it and write up the results:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTCS_82.htm