1. Come on, 6’s!! How did it feel to play this game?
Did any player’s behavior change as the game continued?
Did every player behave the same way?
Why factors do you think caused the differences in the way the players responded throughout the game?

2. Top 10 List- Senior Stress
In groups of 5-6 discuss your stressors and create a Senior top 10 list.

3. What Is Stress?

4. Stressors : events & situations to which you must react
Primary appraisals
Irrelevant
Eustress- positive
Challenge
Arousal, focus
Distress
Overtaxes your emotional and psychological resources
Threat
Stress, distraction

5. Susceptibility to Stress (SUS)
Take SUS
Add all items and subtract 21
Scores over 32 indicate susceptibility
52-77 = serious, 77 and higher = extreme
Related Factors
Lifestyle
Health Behaviors
Resources For Coping

6. General Adaptation Syndrome (Selye)
Fight or Flight: May occur many times a day
Body’s reaction to long term stress & is marked by the actual breakdown of internal organs & the weakening of the immune system.
Body uses up vital stores of energy: glucose, minerals, hormones, may interfere with bodily process.
Psychophysiological symptoms could appear.
Psychophysiological symptoms generally don’t occur

7. Type A Personality Combat Ready, intense, hard-driving.”
3 times more likely to have heart attacks
5 times more likely to develop premature heart disease
Increased BP
High protein levels which can lead to heart damage.
More likely to continually show/suppress anger/hostility
Medical & behavioral treatments would be beneficial
Besides personality factors, various social factors can increase/decrease stress and affect one’s health.