Most of the literature talks about the beneficial effects of stress when is acute (as an adaptive mechanism) and about the detrimental effects of chronic or uncontrolled exposure to stress (maladaptive). I'm interested in the negative effects of acute stress, any interesting paper that discuss this aspect?
Dear Celia,
Hans Selye's stress model provides you with negative effects of both acute stress (you encounter a bear in the wood) and chronic stress (you are for exemple paralyzed; look at my paper about Ms B and Ms P ...) from a very informative psycho-biological perspective.
Selye created his stress model in 1936 and it is called
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
which thoroughly explains the stress response and how aging and disease are caused by chronic exposure to stress.
“Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.”
Acute stress is very essential which is involved in our day to day life and of course every one of us were experiencing it in all the fields. Acute stress will enhance the working memory of already familiar tasks but negative effect on the new tasks and it may differ according to the nature of stressor. All the best
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