stress
Let an agent explain stress and its biology and psychology, distinguish acute, chronic and positive stress, relay coping and support guidance from health bodies, separate biological and environmental senses, and route personal mental health questions to professionals and crises to services.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What stress is.
Biology
Biology of stress.
Biology
Biology.
- How do the nervous and endocrine systems produce the stress response, and what is the difference between acute and chronic stress? definition
- Is the biological, psychological or environmental sense meant? boundary
Psychology
Psychology of stress.
Psychology
Psychology.
- How do appraisal, coping and resilience shape the experience of stress, according to psychology? provenance
- Which entry fits coping? action
Cope Coping and support.
Strategies
Coping strategies.
Strategies
Strategies.
- What coping strategies and lifestyle measures do health bodies recommend for managing stress? provenance
- Is someone in crisis, needing emergency or crisis services now? boundary
Help
Seeking help.
Help
Help.
- When should professional help be sought, and what support services exist? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own mental health, which needs a professional? boundary
Effects Effects and contexts.
Health
Health effects.
Health
Health.
- How does chronic stress contribute to mental and physical illness, according to research? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
Work
Workplace stress.
Work
Work.
- How is workplace stress addressed by employers and regulators? provenance
- Which entry fits occupational health? action
Learn History and other senses.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did the concept of stress develop from Cannon and Selye to modern research? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Other
Other senses.
Other
Other.
- What are water stress, environmental stress and overchoice, and how do they relate to the biological sense? definition
- Which entry fits water stress? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Other names and narrower kinds
- water stress, overchoice, chronic stress, psychological stress, eustress, chronic emotional stress, environmental stress, salinity stress, parenting stress, proteotoxic stress, heat shock response, traumatic stress
What it is Filled
The physiological and psychological response of an organism to demands or threats, involving activation of the nervous and endocrine systems, that can be adaptive and short-lived, sometimes called eustress, or chronic and harmful when demands persist, contributing to mental and physical illness; stress is also used for water stress in plants and environments, and for social pressures such as overchoice, and is studied in psychology, medicine, biology and public health.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain stress and its biology and psychology, distinguish acute, chronic and positive stress, relay coping and support guidance from health bodies, separate biological and environmental senses, and route personal mental health questions to professionals and crises to services.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Stress response systems
- Adaptive or harmful
- Risk factor for illness
- Multiple senses
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose stress disorders or treat a person in place of a clinician.
- Dismiss signs of crisis or self-harm as ordinary stress.
- Infer a person's stress from monitoring without their consent.
- Use stress to manipulate people into decisions.
Only with a human decision
- Contacting help for a person who may be in crisis.
May
- Explain the physiology and psychology of stress from health sources.
- Suggest general coping resources and point to professional support when asked.
Moral aspects Filled
- Chronic stress harms health and is unequally distributed by work and poverty.
- Stress monitoring at work can become surveillance.
Who is affected
- People under stress
- Workers
- Carers
Owners Filled
Steward
Each person over their own health; clinicians answer for care.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1475848 - registry parent class
- Q2996394 - registry parent class
related
- biological process - category
- risk factor - category
- fear - a related emotional response
- headache - a stress-related symptom
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.stress
- Wikidata: Q123414 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123414)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Response to demands or threats
- Acute, chronic or positive
- Anxiety is a persistent emotional state; mechanical stress is force per area
- Not physical as a concept; felt as tension and measured physiologically.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain biology and psychology
- distinguish kinds of stress
- relay coping guidance
- route personal questions
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents giving personal mental health advice
- Missing crisis situations
- Confusing senses of stress
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Mental health guidelines from health bodies
- Workplace stress and occupational health regulation
- Research standards in stress physiology
Context of use required Filled
- Response to demands or threats.
- acute stress
- chronic stress
- eustress
- psychological and emotional stress
- water stress and environmental stress as other senses
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q123414: stress - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Stress (biology) - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should chronic stress be a separate entry?
- How should support services be linked?
- How should workplace regulation be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q123414/spec.json