However, stress can have good results as well as bad. Stress is an effect of life change. It refers not to the change itself, but to how you react to the change. For this reason, even positive events can cause stress. Getting married or moving to a bigger and better home can cause as much stress as trouble with an instructor or a problem at work.
Reactions vary with individual people.
An event that causes one person great anxiety may cause only a mild reaction in another. Almost any change in your life can create some level of stress. See Table 9-1 for different changes with their corresponding stress levels. To find your score, add the values of the events that you have experienced in the past year. Scoring over 300 points means that you are at a high risk of illness or injury due to stress.