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SKILL: Critically reflect and make decisions, problem solving / Make decisions
EQF LEVEL (INTERNAL REFERENCE): 2
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Introduction
By the end of this LU you will know the close relationship between emotional stress and decision making. You'll discover how you might approach choices depending on your stress level.
Content
Emotional stress is a condition characterized by specific emotional and physical states. It is very common among people and can have major negative health consequences as well. There are many experiences in your life that you may consider stressful. Whether you experience them as stressful depends on many variables and situations that are subjective: you may find a situation stressful , while someone else may not.Among the activities you find yourself doing on a daily basis, decision making is definitely one of those that can cause emotional stress.
When you have to make a decision, you face three fundamental phases during which you can also experience a condition of great stress. The phases are:
In the alarm and adaptation phases, the emotional stress you experience is called acute and it is good because it makes you active and focused on decision making. If, however, in the exhaustion phase you fail to decrease your stress level and remain under pressure all the time, the stress will become chronic. This could affect your future decisions. To avoid chronic stress, you should always alternate moments of alarm and adaptation with moments of rest, and you should try to avoid the exhaustion phase as much as possible.
There are three stages of emotional stress: alarm, adaptation, and exhaustion. To avoid chronic stress, it is necessary to alternate moments of alarm and adaptation with moments of rest.
Decision making is a process with specific characteristics that can affect and increase your level of emotional stress. Here are two examples:
Depending on your stress level, you'll approach decision making differently. See how:
One very important thing to consider is that emotional stress and decision making are very closely linked and, moreover, they affect each other. The more difficult the choice, the more stress increases; the more stressed you are the more difficult it is to make a correct decision. If you want to deal with choices in the most lucid way possible, you must always keep this close relationship in mind and manage your stress level as best you can.
Final test
Test 1 (Find the incorrect answers):
The stages that link stress and motive and decision making are:
Test 2 (correct choice)
Decision making:
Test 3 (finish the sentence with the right ending):
If in the exhaustion phase you don't relax ____________:
Test 4 (Matching sentences/words):
Associate each word with the correct sentence: alternative, choice, impulsive
Language point
The…, the….comparatives.
We can use the comparative with The…, the…. to say that things change or vary together.
The word order in both clauses is the following:
The + comparative expression + subject + verb:
Example: The more I study , the more I learn
There are several examples of this structure in the text:
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