eustress

People may feel very good afterwards if they experience eustress.

The body itself cannot physically discern between distress or eustress.

Such environmental factors that would seem to produce positive responses have also been termed "eustress."

In contrast, if stress enhances one's functioning it may be considered eustress.

Much of the research on eustress has focused on its presence in the workplace.

Further physiological research has looked for neuroendocrine changes as a result of eustress and distress.

Selye published in 1975 a model dividing stress into eustress and distress.

In fact, it can help keep workers healthy, the consultants insist, and they back that up by tossing around fancy words like "eustress."

Positive stressors (called eustress) may include an upcoming wedding, the holidays, or pregnancy.

Basically, stress is divided into eustress and distress.

The word eustress consists of two parts.

Eustress is common in the examples below.

Selye coined the term "eustress" for positive stress, by contrast to distress.

This means that distress is the opposite of eustress, a positive stress that motivates people.

Eustress is positive or good stress.

He called negative stress "distress" and positive stress "eustress".

Where stress enhances function (physical or mental, such as through strength training or challenging work), it may be considered eustress.

Potential indicators of eustress may include responding to a stressor with a sense of meaning, hope, or vigor.

Fan activities give participants a combination of euphoria and stress (about the potential for their team to lose) for which they coin the name "eustress".

Research has focused on increasing eustress in the workplace, in an effort to promote positive reactions to an inevitably stressful environment.

Distress, the opposite of eustress.

The concept of managing levels anxiety can be compared to managing eustress and distress to achieve optimum performance.

For potential positive meanings, reference can be made to Hans Selye's psychological concept of eustress or good, healthy stress.

Distress is the most commonly referred to type of stress, having negative implications, whereas eustress is usually related to desirable events in a person's life.

Selye (1957) labeled beneficial stresses as "eustress" and detrimental stresses as "distress".