Stress and Place in Medical Sociology
Place, Neighborhoods & Networks
Stress, Coping and social supports
Stress is considered to be a health threatening circumstance that may arise from natural occurrences or the social roles (Brown, Phil. 2008: 118). The two aspects are seen to be interrelated source of stress in the sense that they cause undesirable changes in life events. The writer is concerned with the influence the resulting stress circumstance impact on the health of an individual. This leads to the determination of measures deployed to facilitate dealing with the stress. Coping and social supports are considered as the measures used to assist in dealing with the stressful situation. Coping and social supports are expected to yield positive effects against the stressful situation. The sought positive effects are however, not realized since the supports mechanisms in turn miss out on the idealistic measures to show empathy. The intricacies involved in determining what makes coping and social supports inadequate to resolve stressful situation is omitted. This is because there are numerous circumstances that develop upon this mechanism making them inappropriate.
In this chapter, the writer's concerns fall within the assessment of the role coping and social support play on the aspect causing stress and the health outcome. For this purpose, four (4) distinctive functions are discussed highlighting supportive attributes to stress and health situation (Brown, Phil. 2008: 119). These are prevention measures, alteration, changing the meaning and management of stress symptoms.
Preventive Functions
The observation of the possibility of existence of measures to protect oneself from the stressful situation is made. The observation comes from the fact that there are people who sail through life without being...
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