stressful experience
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstressfulandexperience
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stressful
adjective
uk/ˈstres.fəl/us/ˈstres.fəl/
making you feel worried ...
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experience
noun
uk/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofstressfulandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The level of recall of thisstressfulexperiencewas found to be higher compared with combined data from routine doctor-visit studies.
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Thus, thestressfulexperienceof victimization by peers probably plays an incremental role in the development of behavioral maladjustment.
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We interpret these findings as reflecting elevated cortisol responses to the moderatelystressfulexperienceof participation in the study.
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Further, the theory and data presented here suggest a plausible account for the paradoxical observation that earlystressfulexperienceappears capable of either augmenting or diminishing biological responses to challenge.
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Vulnerability to expression of extreme deviations in behavior (psychopathology) might be acquired indirectly through enhanced responsiveness tostressfulexperience, or relative inability to modify behavior in relation to past experience.
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While these definitions are related, the unifying principle is that there must have been a risk orstressfulexperienceat some point in the individual's life.
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This proposal will facilitate pet owners in that it will make travelling with pet animals a lessstressfulexperience.
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A 40year-old woman said that it was the moststressfulexperiencein her life, but no one wanted to stop such inspections.
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Transportation is an intrinsicallystressfulexperiencefor farmed livestock.
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She is most suitably employed, because she can encourage people who need cheering when they visit the day clinic for what can be astressfulexperience.
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The income from these licenses allowed the band a lessstressfulexperiencepursuing their follow-up album.
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Thisstressfulexperiencealmost caused him to quit driving the ice road right then and there.
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After the individual encounters astressfulexperience, the cognitive vulnerability shapes a maladaptive response that increases the likelihood of a psychological disorder.
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Thus, the developing child may be particularly vulnerable to traumatic or unusually stressful experiences.
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Therefore, some traumatized children may actually show better recall for stressful experiences by virtue of their being hypervigilent in times of increased threat (see below).
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Likewise, there may be different pathways from stressful experiences that eventuate in the same outcome.
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Resilience is only recognized in the context of adverse or stressful experiences.
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Parental imprisonment might cause children's internalizing problems because of the trauma of separation, or because of other stressful experiences following the imprisonment.
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Effects of writing about stressful experiences on symptom reduction in patients with asthma or rheumatoid arthritis.
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