Stress and Filipinos

Stress and
Filipinos
Europeans find crowded places stressful because
they crave privacy, while Filipinos are delighted to
see a crowd.
Filipinos as the happiest people in the
world, unfazed by the most difficult of
circumstances.
Filipinos do face many sources of stress,
around work and livelihood mainly.
Filipino Traits and Values
• Emerita Quito
• Female professor of
philosophy
• Proposed to take a second
– look at the supposed
negative Filipino traits and
values.
• Hiya • Kasi
• Ningas Cogon • Saving face
(Procrastination • Sakop
• Bukas na
)
(Mañaña habit)
• Pakikisama
• Utang na loob
• Patigasan
• Kanya kanya
• Bahala na
The Social and
Cultural Dimensions
of Stress
What is Social Stress ?
• Social stress is a state of mental or
emotional strain or tension resulting from
adverse or very demanding circumstances
arising from the person’s social
environment relationships.
Social status is seen as the common
denominator for social stress.
WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF STRESS
?
• Problems with work or earning income
• Parenting
• Education
• Sex and socialization
• Immigration status or language
• Personal, physical, and psychological health
• Peer pressure
• Social marginalization
Stress and the
sociological
perspective
• Emile Durkheim
• French sociologist
• One of the founders of
modern sociology.
• Social organization of
groups influence the
individual behavior of
their members.
Three Types of
Suicide According
to Durkheim
Egoistic suicide
Altruistic suicide
Anomic suicide
Two Major Types of
Stressors
Life Events
• Important, specific experiences that interrupt an
individual’s usual activity/routine that he/she needs
to adjust to.
Chronic Strains
• Problems that have been occurring for some time
and the person’s social role is strained.
Common Types of
Role Strains
Role Overload
The role demands on an individual exceed his or her
capacity to handle.
Interpersonal Conflicts within Roles Set
These are problems and difficulties that arise in a

relationship.
Inter-role Conflicts
The demands of two
or more roles held by
a person are
incompatible, and the
demand cannot
simultaneously be
met.
Role Restructuring
long-established
patterns undergo
considerable change
and the person needs
to adapt/adjust.
How stress is
appraised
Symbolic Interactionism
• assumes that people respond to elements of their

environments according to the subjective meanings
they attach to those elements.
Mediators of Stress:
Coping and Social
Support
• Coping refers to personal response
that can be activated when stressful
circumstances arise.
• Refers to the things people do to
prevent, avoid, or control emotional
distress.
The Role of Social Class,
Race, and Gender in
Social Stress
Social Class
Those who are in lower social class have higher
mental and emotional stress.
Race
Research shows that responses to stress vary, and the
person’s ethnicity is relevant to his/her stress
response.
Gender
Women were found to have higher rates of
psychological distress and depression compared to
men.
Cultural Differences in
Stress Response
• Culture is the set of ideas, beliefs, expectations,
and behaviors shared by a particular group of
people.
• Culture affects the person's experience to stress
Type of Stressor
• The types of stress a cultural group are exposed to
will also depend on their general location.
Perception of Stressor
• Culture differ according to what their members
perceive as stressful.
Coping Mechanism
• Some of the ways that cultures differ in the way they make
available different coping mechanism to their members are:
• Beliefs that allow them to make sense of stressors

• Beliefs about how stressors should be coped with .
• The availability of social support
Maslow’s
Hierarchy of
Needs
• Abraham Maslow
• American psychologist
who was best known for
creating Maslow's
hierarchy of needs.
Self-care: What is it
and Why is it
important?
• Self care, entails taking deliberate acts of looking
after your mental, emotional, and physical health.
• Proper self-care is taking a very active and powerful
choice to engage in activities that will result in
acquiring or maintaining optimal health .
• The key word of self-care is balance.
Compassion
• Compassion, framed as an emotion, is the
felt response to perceiving suffering that
involves an authentic desire to ease distress.
• Dacher Keltner of University of California, coined
the term “compassionate instinct” to point out the
growing evidence that at the core both animals and
human beings have an automatic response to ensure
the survival not only of our own but of others.
Compassion’s Surprising
Benefits for Physical and
Psychological
• improved happiness
• good mental health
• a stronger immune system
• reduced anxiety, stress and depression
• improved relationships
• a longer life
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