The origin of the concept of stress predates antiquity.

Derived from the Latin word stringere, stress was popularly used in the seventeenth century to mean hardship, strain, adversity or affiliation. It was used in the eighteenth and nineteenth century to denote force, pressure, strain or strong efforts with reference to an ob ect or person. !odern world is a world of stress, right from the time of birth till death an individual is invariably e"posed to various stressful situations. #ence stress is a sub ect which is hard to avoid. The term is discussed not only in everyday conversation but hasbut enough of the public of the public issue to attract widespread media attention. Different people have different views about it as stress can be e"perienced from a variety of sources. The businessman views stress as frustration or emotional tension the air traffic controller sees it as a problem of alertness and concentration and the biochemist than$s of it is as a purely a chemist event. !any people have different ideas about what %stress& actually means. 'or most college students, stress is something that is negative and unpleasant. (hat most people thin$ of when they hear the word %stress& is actually distress. Distress is a negative emotion that most people generally try to avoid, but there is also a good $ind of stress called eustress. Thin$ of eustress as a helpful agent in your body that calls your attention to a given tas$ and gets you ready for optimal functioning. )ustress is the bodys way of marshalling its forces to prepare for battle, and ma$ing sure that all of the soldiers are sober, well*rested, and well*fed. To continue the battle analogy, when we become distressed it means that our bodys resources are becoming over*burdened+ our soldiers are tired and hungry from fighting so much, and they havent had enough time to rest and replenish themselves. Thin$ing of it another way, have you ever been tired and over*reacted to someone, !aybe you didn-t mean to snap at them in anger, but you ust couldn-t $eep it in any longer, That is one .flavor. of distress. If you weren-t tired, you probably would have been able to respond with more composure. )ustress is the $ind of stress people are usually tal$ing about when they say that they put things off until the last minute because they thin$ it helps them focus. If their stress isnt too intense, then it may actually be helpful for them. / lot of times, however, their stress does become distress and their effectiveness is impaired.Different disciplines and different professionals have viewed in differently. /garwala et al 012324 believed that confusion in definition is primarily due to the fact that the same term is used variously by scholars of different disciplines. Thus, in physiology, the various changes in physiological functions in response to evocative agents denote stress. In psychological, stress refers to a particular $ind of state of the organi5ation resulting from some interaction between him6her and the environment. !ason 012374reviewed literature on stress and concluded that there was much confusion and a lac$ of consensus regarding its definition. The term stress has been approached in at least four different ways. 1. /s the stimulus or e"ternal force acting on organism. 8. /s the response or changes in physiological function. 9. /s the interaction between an e"ternal force and its resistance :. /s a comprehensive phenomenon encompassing all the 9above. ;ne of the most commonly accepted view of stress is provided by seyele0127<4. #e called it %=eneral /daptation >yndrome& which has been widely held as a comprehensive model to e"plain the stress phenomenon. >eyele defines stress as an adopative response to the e"ternal situation that results in physical, psychological, and6or behavioral deviation for organi5ational participants. %#e has suggested a three*stag