What is Stress?
Whenever we feel physical or mental tension, we consider that we are under stress. Domestic dictionaries describe stress as a ‘ constraining influence’ or as ‘Physical, emotional or mental pressure’. During last few decades, enormous research has been done on stress.
If we want to know how scientists have defined stress, we will soon land-up in a massive semantic mess. Such confusion about the meaning and usage of the term ‘stress’ has been created because, the concept of ‘stress’ was initially borrowed from physics by physiologists, medical researchers and they adapted the concept in various ways depending on their respective professional perspective and line of assumption or emphasis.
Some of the researchers considered stress as stimulus i.e. as those factors which act upon living organism be it human or animal. While others had held the view that....
