0 making you feel worried and nervous: --
She's very good at coping in stressful situations.
Police work is physically demanding and stressful.
2 a stressful situation or event is difficult to deal with and makes you feel worried and unhappy: --
find sth stressful Most people find job interviews pretty stressful.
a stressful job/workplace/working environment
stressful for sb The relocation was extremely stressful for all concerned.
Women were approximately three times more likely than men to experience major depression in response to any stressful life event.
The parents (indirectly) and the offspring (directly) benefit because the offspring's needs are satisfied without the cost of unwanted attention and a stressful display.
On the contrary, the effects of stressful life events and social support were slightly augmented and not diminished by the inclusion of cortisol.
In other words, stressful life events that occurred shortly after divorce appeared to significantly increase vulnerability to depressive symptoms among children of divorced parents.
Table 1 makes it clear that the government brought substantial numbers of prosecutions only at a few particularly stressful moments.
These results suggest maternal depression may influence child behavior through its association with a more stressful social context.
Overwhelming our exstudents respond that it is the most stressful but important and educationally useful part of the course.
Moving into unfamiliar and often stressful school settings coincides with pubertal changes and the search for identity.