UNDERSTANDING THE SELF A PROJECT INTERVIEW REPORT: By: Ashley Faith Perales Instructor: Ms. Sharmaine Cogal I. Profile Codename: paboritomongloner Age: 18 years old Sex: Female Status: Single Nationality: Filipino II. Issues and Challenges Experienced Stress As defined by UNICEF (2020), Stress is common both in adults and children, it is common feeling we get when we feel under pressure, overwhelmed or unable to cope. However, too much of it, particularly when it feels out of control, can have a negative influence on our behavior, emotions, physical, mental health, and relationships. Physical Stress affects physical development in many aspects, in fact, there are too many negative impacts to mention. After the interview session with my respondent, I listed the different negative impacts she suffered due to stress. Experienced extreme fatigue and frequent headaches. A feeling of severely overtired and often head pains hinders her to work and finish her academic stuff. Also suffered from nausea and chest tightness. A sudden urge to vomit and a feeling of a sharp stab in her chest as a result of her chest tightness. Sleep deprivation is caused by difficulty sleeping. Not obtaining enough sleep as a result of physical tension caused by stress. Cognitive Stress can have an impact on an individual's cognitive abilities. Stress, according to Sandi (2003), impairs an individual's distinct cognitive capabilities (e.g., learning, longterm memory, and information processing). My respondent indicated how stresses effect her mental health and cognitive function during the session. She is having difficulty focusing on tasks due to stress, which prevents her from finishing her tasks and undermines her organization. In addition, she highlighted how easy she forgets things. From misplacing items to neglecting tasks and responsibilities. Socio - Emotional Due to stress she mentioned about experiencing being anxious and irritable. She is impatient and irritated quickly over little things. She also had panic attacks, racing heartbeats, restlessness, and a lot of tensions. Behavioral In result of being stressed, she talks about how she developed annoying behavioral habits. She developed a constant habit of nail biting and fidgeting. In addition, she frequently feels uneasiness and constant worrying. Stressors In line with the previous interview session with my respondent, she mentioned about what are the things that triggers her stress. Firstly is the academic pressure. The pressure that is usually the common cause of stress of every students. The feeling of a urge to complete and get a high scores in that certain task, that leads to pressure yourself to do more. Second, the expectations, she said that when she expect too much, she would do anything and constantly think of that certain problem that results to stress. Third, all of her life responsibilities, when she have too much work or responsibility on her shoulder, instead of prospering and doing the task, she shutdown that deprived her from performing even the simpliest activity. Lastly, environmental stressors such as noise and disorganization. She specified noise a nonspecific stressors triggers her stress since it annoys her easily. III. Analysis of the Issues Figure 1.1 - Theoretical Framework Stress is a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources that endangere's his or her well-being. Simply stress is the result of interplay between the individual and the environment (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). Transactional model explanations of stress highlight the cognitive phenomenological processes that allow humans to give meaning to their surroundings, focusing the transactional, dynamic aspect of the transaction in which stress may occur (Biggs et al., 2017). Furthermore, stress is a product of primary and secondary appraisal. Based on the transactional model of stress and coping, stress is felt as an appraisal (evaluation) of the circumstance we find ourselves in. The transactional model, in particular, proposes that humans go through two levels of assessment before feeling and responding to stress. Primary appraisal is the perception of what is threatening in a stressful encounter, secondary appraisal is often used to describe perceptions of personal and situational resources, and the third level of assessment assesses the success of the coping strategy adopted in order to guarantee adaptation to a new situation (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). The respondent experienced stressed that develops short and long term outcomes. It is due to her experience and the different factors that triggers stress. It affects her mental perception. This affects how she view life and her surroundings. In addition, stress also affects her physical development. She developed dark circles under her eyes and difficulty in sleeping. In terms of her socio - emotional development, she had a difficulty initiating a conversation with other people. Stress is a human response to the pressure of its environment. Stress is a stimuli that creates either positive or negative impact on a individual this pertains to eustress and distress. However, coping strategy best help people who are dealing in a stressful situations. This reduces the pressure and fear, that lessen the risk of self-harm. Our environment is consist with different stressors tht might trigger stress but let's build an effective coping strategy that lessen the possible effect of stress. IV. 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