Stress of Working Women

Stress is a major problem of today’s modern society. It has been proved through recent studies that 75%  of diseases occur due to mental stress, The deadly disease like heart disease and cancer too is related to stress. Now what is stress?

Psychologists have in many ways tried to define stress. The reason of mental stress has been made clear. Here, stress means the factor or event or cause through which there is mental disequilibrium, tension and maladaptive behaviour in the individual. Reber (1995) ahs rightly defined stress as “Stress, generally is any force that when’ applied to a system causes some significant connotation that the modification of its forms, usually with the connotation that the modification is a deformation or a distortion.

There is a stress provoking situation or event, which causes stress in an individual. It causes mental agony, worthlessness, frustration, depression and so on. This stress provoking situation can be physical, social or psychological, e.g. :- Physical disease, fatigue, pain etc. are the examples of Physical stress.