Stress-Response

Role of multiple factors on response to stress:

• Good Personality Traits: (“good state of mind”)

  • developed social support groups--formed nonsexual friendships with the opposite sex
  • they could differentiate between neutral and threatening social situations, and initiated fights only when the situations were indeed threatening--predicability and taking control
  • when they lost a fight they showed displacement behavior-->they showed aggression toward an innocent bystander; we might consider exercise (raquetball) as a way to release tension associated with stress

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