Includes income, family size, education, occupation, home ownership, zip code, race. Age, sex, race, SES, smoking, weight extreme, occupation, family health history, etc. Stress is defined by Selye as a situation of arousal for an organism. Fight or flight response.
Stages are alarm, resistance, exhaustion, death.
Optimal level of stress. Turtles, racehorse, average. Turtles use external strategies primarily in low stress situations. Otherwise tend to use denail, resignation, rumination. Racehorses use external strategies primarily in moderate or high stress situations.