The modern world, which is said to be a world of achievement, is also a world of stress. One finds stress everywhere, whether it be within the family, business organization/enterprises or any other social or economic activity. Right from the time of birth till the last breath drawn, an individual is invariably exposed to various stressful situations. Thus, it is not surprising that interest in the issue has been rising with the advancement of the present centaury which has been called the ‘age of anxiety and stress’.
Stress is the subject which is hard to avoid. The term is discussed not only in our everyday conversations but has become enough of a public issue to attract widespread media attention whether it be radio, television, newspapers or magazines, the issue of stress figures everywhere. Different people have different views about it as stress can be experienced from variety of sources. Ask the opinions of five different. The business person views stress as frustration or emotional tension; the air traffic controller sees it as a problem of alertness and
concentration; the biochemist thinks of it as a purely chemical event.
The concept of stress was first introduced in the life sciences by HANS SELYE in 1936. It is concept borrowed from the natural sciences. Derived from Latin word ‘SRINGERE’, stress was popularly used in seventeenth centaury to mean hardship, strain, adversity or affliction. It was used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to denote force, pressure, strain or strong effort with reference to an object or person.
The term stress is used to connote a variety of meaningful both by the common man and psychologist. Psychologist of different persuasions have given (a) stimulus –oriented, (b) response – oriented (both physiological & behavioral), (c) depth psychologist have treated the concept from the etiological and psychodynamic viewpoints. It appears that under these circumstances the essential features of the stress experienced have not received the attention they deserve. (Asthana, 1983)
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