0 something that causes stress (= great worry or emotional difficulty):
Constant noise can be a stressor.
For the existential stressor, emotion-focused approach strategies were reported most frequently.
Five retrospective studies employing life events interviews specifically examined the role of independent stressors in onsets of manic episodes.
It also suggests that nonpainful and painful stressors will produce different patterns of facial expressions.
The life stressors most likely to trigger depression are those that are congruent with the individual's domains of cognitive vulnerability.
That is, depressive affect does not increase with greater young-adult work stressors; and self-esteem and self-efficacy do not diminish.
However, little research has examined how people cope differentially with different types of stressors.
Consistent with a developmental psychopathology perspective, monitoring would involve both the assessment of depressive symptoms and psychosocial stressors (triggers) that could precipitate relapse.
A wealth of data has demonstrated the specificity of stressor-symptom relationships.
