Stress and Health — psychology STD 12 Arts — Question

• Impulsive reactions to mood swings can be of many types.
• Feedback is based on how the mood is interpreted.
• Constructive impulses are experienced if the mood is seen as a stimulating or regulatory challenge.
• E.g. Joy, exhilaration or thrill.
• But mood swings can be interpreted as insecure and inhibitory.
• E.g. such negative impulsive reactions like fear, anger, melancholy, etc. hinder one's efforts to cope with stress.
• The moods that people experience vary in terms of intensity, duration, complexity, and predictability.

(1) Bitterness-less or more
(2) Duration-Long duration or short duration
(3) Complexity - more or less
(4) The possibility of prediction-unexpected or predictable

• It usually produces inhibitory impulsive reactions if there is an extremely intense, prolonged, more complex and unpredictable mood.
• While less intense, short-lived, easy and predictable moods do not result in such negative reactions.
• How a person responds to a stressful situation is determined by their cultural background, as well as the resources they have, such as money, medical facilities, personal and social skills, and skills to cope with stress.
• Thus the reaction against mood is determined on the basis of all these factors.