Anger and stress

Anger and stress management function in a similar manner and this is partially due to the similar composition of anger and stress - both have a psychological component. With anger and stress, are generally true: certain events often trigger anger or stress in many people, but the degree of anger or stress experienced has to do with how a person perceives and interprets what is happening to them. For example, two people in the traffic can be cut. A person can interpret the gesture as a lack of respect, a threat to the physical safety or a hostile gesture and anger. Another person can determine that the offending driver have not been, or could be involved in their own thoughts, leaving the event to roll back. In both cases, was a stimulus, a faith and a response; belief or interpretation, the stimulus is what led to different responses.
(If this sounds familiar, cognitive restructuring can be useful for you.) Some people have innate personality traits that make them more susceptible to anger and stress. For example, some people are naturally more observers than others; This can make them more likely to notice the things that could make her angry, things that can happen unnoticed by anyone else. Some people are naturally less comfortable with the change, which can also cause stress and anger in some situations. Other people have a low tolerance to frustration and get more easily than others more angry. Some of these trends can be seen early in life, but can be moderated these trends.
(Read more about personality traits that are more prone to stress.) Our habitual thinking patterns, which may be altered with the practice, contribute to our experience of anger or stress. Some people tend to interpret things negatively as a matter of habit. It can be attributed another error reasons malicious or cruel, for example. A negative event can be taken as a sign that more negative developments are yet to come, which can contribute to anger and stress.
(Learn more about style attributional and optimism and pessimism). Anger and stress are natural experiences. The way in which we deal with anger and stress can make the difference between healthy and unhealthy levels. With stress, for example, we not cannot always prevent stressful events that may occur; However, handle stress through breathing exercises, daily or other stress management techniques can neutralize the effects of stress. Also, always we cannot avoid the anger that occurs, we can work through our anger in healthy ways and it is not a problem - or we can try ira "things" or express it in negative and unhealthy ways but becomes a problem.
(See this article on the management of anger for healthy ways to manage anger).

Source:
Miers AC, Rieffe C, Meerum Terwogt M, Cowan R, Linden w. The relationship between the strategies of anger, mood of anger and somatic complaints in children and adolescents. Journal of abnormal child psychology, August 2007.

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