stressful situation

collocation in English

meaningsofstressfulandsituation

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stressful
adjective
uk
/ˈstres.fəl/us
/ˈstres.fəl/
making you feel worried ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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(Definition ofstressfulandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thus, elevated basal levels at arrival to the laboratory may represent increased reactivity to a strange and potentiallystressfulsituationin alcohol-exposed infants.
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It may also be that higher positive emotionality makes children more attentive to the more positive, optimistic cues in thestressfulsituation.
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Cohesion and relative power in family relationships and adolescent coping with a real-lifestressfulsituation.
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Working models of attachment, support giving, and support seeking in astressfulsituation.
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Thus, large differences often arise in individuals' reactions to the same objective,stressfulsituation.
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I have experienced working in a verystressfulsituation.
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Even instressfulsituation, there is a minimum of choices: f light, fight, or transcend.
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Where there are such delays as this, the promoters tend to agree that, due to thestressfulsituation, miscommunication is an additional likely cause of even more delay.
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Alternatively, the laboratory is a strange and potentiallystressfulsituationat this age, particularly initially, when the infant is confronted with a novel environment and numerous strangers.
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We can look at what is going on when you are at work in astressfulsituationand when you are sitting at home in a relaxed environment.
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The infant, when faced with a parent who has a frightened facial expression in astressfulsituation, might come to the two different and simultaneous conclusions.
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Liotti hypothesized that an infant with multiple, incompatible models of self and other would rapidly switch back and forth between models when confronted by astressfulsituationinvolving the parent.
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Hyperprolactinemia, a condition associated with infertility in women and impotence in men, can be induced in monkeys purely by exposing them to thestressfulsituationof social subordination.
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Your service in the forces could well be constituted astressfulsituation.
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That makes things much easier for any teacher who is going through what is, for them, astressfulsituation.
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That is astressfulsituationin which truth becomes apparent.
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We wish to avoid thestressfulsituationwhere one sibling goes to one school, but another sibling is unable to go to the same school.
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They find themselves back in thestressfulsituationthat brought about their mental collapse in the first place.
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Teenagers who find themselves pregnant are already in an extremelystressfulsituation.
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Therefore, if they are working in astressfulsituation, counselling should overcome the need to smoke.
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