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The origin of the concept of stress predates antiquity. Derived from the Latin word

stringere, stress was popularly used in the seventeenth century to mean hardship, strain,

adversity or affiliation. It was used in the eighteenth and nineteenth century to denote force,

pressure, strain or strong efforts with reference to an obect or person. !odern world is a

world of stress, right from the time of birth till death an individual is invariably e"posed to

various stressful situations. #ence stress is a subect which is hard to avoid. The term isdiscussed not only in everyday conversation but hasbut enough of the public of the public

issue to attract widespread media attention. Different people have different views about it as

stress can be e"perienced from a variety of sources. The businessman views stress as

frustration or emotional tension the air traffic controller sees it as a problem of alertness and

concentration and the biochemist than$s of it is as a purely a chemist event.

!any people have different ideas about what %stress& actually means. 'or most college

students, stress is something that is negative and unpleasant. (hat most people thin$ of when

they hear the word %stress& is actually distress. Distress is a negative emotion that most

people generally try to avoid, but there is also a good $ind of stress called eustress.

Thin$ of eustress as a helpful agent in your body that calls your attention to a given tas$ and

gets you ready for optimal functioning. )ustress is the bodys way of marshalling its forces toprepare for battle, and ma$ing sure that all of the soldiers are sober, well*rested, and well*fed.

To continue the battle analogy, when we become distressed it means that our bodys resources

are becoming over*burdened+ our soldiers are tired and hungry from fighting so much, and

they havent had enough time to rest and replenish themselves.

Thin$ing of it another way, have you ever been tired and over*reacted to someone !aybe

you didn-t mean to snap at them in anger, but you ust couldn-t $eep it in any longer That is

one flavor of distress. If you weren-t tired, you probably would have been able to respond

with more composure.

)ustress is the $ind of stress people are usually tal$ing about when they say that they put

things off until the last minute because they thin$ it helps them focus. If their stress isnt too

intense, then it may actually be helpful for them. / lot of times, however, their stress does

become distress and their effectiveness is impaired.Different disciplines and different

professionals have viewed in differently. /garwala et al 012324 believed that confusion in

definition is primarily due to the fact that the same term is used variously by scholars of

different disciplines. Thus, in physiology, the various changes in physiological functions in

response to evocative agents denote stress. In psychological, stress refers to a particular $ind

of state of the organi5ation resulting from some interaction between him6her and the

environment. !ason 012374reviewed literature on stress and concluded that there was much

confusion and a lac$ of consensus regarding its definition. The term stress has been

approached in at least four different ways.

1. /s the stimulus or e"ternal force acting on organism. 8. /s the response or changes in physiological function.

9. /s the interaction between an e"ternal force and its resistance

:. /s a comprehensive phenomenon encompassing all the 9above.

;ne of the most commonly accepted view of stress is provided by seyele0127yndrome& which has been widely held as a comprehensive model to

e"plain the stress phenomenon. >eyele defines stress as an adopative response to the e"ternal

situation that results in physical, psychological, and6or behavioral deviation for organi5ational

participants. %#e has suggested a three*stag