stressful event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstressfulandevent
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withevent.
stressful
adjective
uk/ˈstres.fəl/us/ˈstres.fəl/
making you feel worried ...
See more atstressful
event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
See more atevent
(Definition ofstressfulandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofstressful event
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
However, in this patient, nasal bleeding was astressfuleventthat induced brief psychotic disorder.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Following this appraisal we then attempt to cope with thestressfuleventand its threat.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This type of "meaning" coping involves primarily changing one's attitude toward thestressfulevent, the way one thinks about the event.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Using a non-standardized questionnaire and a clinical interview he found that 85 % of his patients had astressfuleventin the year preceding onset.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In this group only two had experienced astressfuleventin the year before interview.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Active coping includes both problem solving and positive, more optimistic cognitions about thestressfulevent.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Regardless of early environmental conditions, social separation in nonhuman primates is considered a highlystressfulevent.
From theCambridge English Corpus
To make these somewhat different measures comparable we have standardized them at each assessment point so that effects are measured forstressfuleventlevels compared to age peers.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Developmental psychopathologists may ask, for example, whether the occurrence of one stressfulevent, such as parental divorce, predicts the occurrence of anotherstressfulevent, such as the onset of depression.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Does anxiety affect children's reports of memory for astressfulevent?
From theCambridge English Corpus
They find asking about effects of the moststressfuleventthat ever happened to the respondent to be a valid short-cut to assessing consequences of traumas.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Roughly one third of patients have no precedingstressfulevent.
From
Wikipedia
The rapid heating of a lamp filament or electrodes when a lamp is turned on is the moststressfuleventon the lamp.
From
Wikipedia
After astressfulevent, he finally succumbs to the glories of dirty tactics and the crisis turned him into the villain of the first series.
From
Wikipedia
When children experience a traumatic andstressfulevent, their ability to accurately recall the event becomes impaired.
From
Wikipedia
According to thestressfulevent, the body's way to respond to stress is by sympathetic nervous system activation which results in the fight-or-flight response.
From
Wikipedia
Reactive responses occur after the stress and possible trauma has occurred, and are aimed more at correcting or minimizing the damage of astressfulevent.
From
Wikipedia
A history of psychologically traumatic events, and the recent experience of astressfulevent, can both contribute to the development of psychosis.
From
Wikipedia
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofstressful
Go to the definition ofevent
See other collocations withevent