Stress, Locus of Control and Behavior Change (Essay Sample)

Stress, locus of control and behavior change
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Q1
Stress is caused by a number of factors such as financial instability, forgetfulness and body resistance to drink water as recommended (Harper, 2011 p 31).
Due to financial instability, it becomes so difficult to buy a new bottle of water when one forgets to carry it from home. It adds another expense that could be easily avoided resulting to much strain and stress.
Sometimes, body resist taking more water as required. Sometimes is too cold and one does not feel thirsty so reduce the intake of water. As a result the body becomes dehydrated leading to much stress to hydrate it.
Water taste also hinders water intake resulting to dehydration in the body. Consequently, the body gets dehydrated and a lot of money is used to hydrate it thus leading to much strain to stress
Q2.
Stress interferes with the healthy behavior of the human being. It slows the proper function of the body capacity and the speed at which one think. As a result, one end up making unrealistic goals that cannot even be achieved in real world. The goal set becomes unspecific, not measurable and does not give a time bound of when should be achieved. Also stress drives one to do crazy things that cause more harm than good in human health. For example, one indulges into excessive intake of drugs thinking it will wipe out stress but unfortunately it does not (Harper, 2011 p 23).
Q3. Planning, suppressing competing activities, seeking emotional support and religion help one to cope up with stress.
Planning entails blue printing of all activities that will take place in each particular day. That way, an individual manage to set adequate time for everything inclusive of meals and relaxation time. Therefore, stress gets reduced since things go as planned and nothing left undone that could likely trigger stress
Suppressing competing activities enables one to have time to drink water and do other things that are healthy in human life free from stress(Harper, 2011 p 34).
Seeking emotional and social supports from friends relieves one from stress. Friends piece off the problem into small portions making it simple. Alternative ways of solving the problem are arrived to thus helping one to get lead of what could likely cause emotional hazards.
Religion also helps to reduce the stress. Prayers bring one peace of mind. This is because God help one see things ahead of him or her are just simple and he is there to relieve that burden.
Q4;
Internal, chance and powerful others scores are as indicated below
Internal = 31 scores
External = 25 scores
Powerful others = 26 scores
The above scores shows that internal score is very high as compared to other scores. That means, internal control of life is very high and one is able to control every activities and things that happens in life. Therefore, one is able to make smart, measurable, specific and attainable goals inclusive of water intake in a daily basis as recommended.
Q5
Behavioral, cognitive, decision, informational and retrospectives are the main domains that enhances clear sense of control over smart goals
A SMART goal means a specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time bound goal. It is an achievement that one can set to ensure there is good healthy behavior. That is, ability to take four bottles of water every day as recommended (Harper, 2011 p 40).
Behavioral domain controls one’s action. Good conduct enables one to take each activity responsively. It makes one to take water before and after every meal as required in order to maintain healthy body.
Cognitive brings a logical sense into one's life. It makes one think creatively on what to do to overcom...