Dr. Kelly McGonigal - How to Make Stress Your Friend
In the lectures, we discussed the relationship between stress and the
functioning of the heart. You watched a TED talk clip by Dr. Kelly
McGonigal who discussed the results of an experimental study.
Half of the participants were randomly assigned to receive an
intervention to reframe their stress response was helpful and the
other half did not receive an intervention.
Here is a quote from this TED Talk:
"You're not very good at this, are you? Okay, so you get the idea. If you
were actually in this study, you'd probably be a little stressed out.
Your heart might be pounding, you might be breathing faster, maybe
breaking out into a sweat. And normally, we interpret these physical
changes as anxiety or signs that we aren't coping very well with the
pressure.
But what if you viewed them instead as signs that your body was
energized, was preparing you to meet this challenge? Now that is
exactly what participants were told in a study conducted at Harvard
University. Before they went through the social stress test, they were
taught to rethink their stress response as helpful. That pounding
heart is preparing you for action. If you're breathing faster, it's no
problem. It's getting more oxygen to your brain."
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This intervention appears to help change these participants' appraisal
of their body's stress response as a preparation to meet a challenge.
This idea best relates to which health and well-being concept?
Daily hassles
O Distress
O Eustress
OPlacebo effect
