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  • noun psychology A healthful, stimulating kind and level of stress.

Etymologies

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eu- +‎ stress

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Examples

  • Selye 1974, 1978 uses the two separate terms eustress and distress to distinguish between positive and negative life consequences of stress for the individual, even though chemically the two forms of stress are exactly the same.

    Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979

  • Selye 1974, 1978 uses the two separate terms eustress and distress to distinguish between positive and negative life consequences of stress for the individual, even though chemically the two forms of stress are exactly the same.

    Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979

  • Selye 1974, 1978 uses the two separate terms eustress and distress to distinguish between positive and negative life consequences of stress for the individual, even though chemically the two forms of stress are exactly the same.

    Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979

  • There are two types of stress, positive stress, sometimes called eustress, and negative stress.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • There are two types of stress, positive stress, sometimes called eustress, and negative stress.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Some stress, called eustress, can be good for the body, such as the stress involved in winning the lottery and trying to figure out how to spend the winnings.

    The Facts: News 2009

  • There are two types of stress, positive stress, sometimes called eustress, and negative stress.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • There are two types of stress, positive stress, sometimes called eustress, and negative stress.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • There are two types of stress, positive stress, sometimes called eustress, and negative stress.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • There are two types of stress, positive stress, sometimes called eustress, and negative stress.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

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  • Stress that is deemed healthful or giving one the feeling of fulfillment.

    July 29, 2008

  • "Was he calling this a pathological state, I asked—saying that people who feel they perform best under pressure actually have a disease? He thought for a minute, and then: 'You can absolutely say that. Yes, you can say that.'

    "This kind of statement might well have the father of stress research lying awake worried in his grave. Hans Selye, who laid the foundations of stress science in the 1930s, believed so strongly in good stress that he coined a word, 'eustress,' for it. He saw stress as 'the salt of life.'"

    —Mary Carmichael, "Who Says Stress Is Bad for You?" Newsweek, Feb. 23, 2009, 47.

    February 21, 2009

  • Well, that's just scary. And now I'm stressed about it.

    February 22, 2009

  • From Caterina Fake:

    • Eustress = Positive exhilarating challenging experiences of success followed by higher expectations

    • Distress = Disappointment, failure, threat, embarrassment and other negative experiences

    August 26, 2009