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Managing Stress 8th Edition by Brian Luke Seaward

Edition 8ISBN: 978-1284036640
book Managing Stress 8th Edition by Brian Luke Seaward cover

Managing Stress 8th Edition by Brian Luke Seaward

Edition 8ISBN: 978-1284036640
Exercise 2
How does acute stress differ from chronic stress?
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Acute stress:
Acute stress is a psychological condition that is faced by individual from certain terrifying situations. The situation may be due to fear, anxiety, discomfort, or uncertainty. This type of distress vanishes faster from the individual's mind and stay only for short period.
Chronic stress:
Chronic stress is emotional feeling or pressure that is faced by the individual for a long period.
Difference between acute stress and chronic stress:
• Acute stress mainly occurs under a specific situation or uncertain event. While chronic stress causes at a particular event with frequent repetition.
• Acute stress very easy and manageable while chronic is an unmanageable type of stress.
• A stress that is for a very short span of time is acute stress. While chronic stress is faced by the individual due emotional feeling or pressure that lasts for a long period.
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