Personality Link To Stress

Some people seems to have higher tolerance for stress. Apart from biological factors such as hormone balance, genetic and other health factors, ongoing medical and psychological research indicates personality,traits, characters and habits determines and affects to a large extend our ability to handle stress.

Ambitious, impatience, time conscious and those who strive to be perfectionist may tend to perceive a situation more stressful compare to those who are more relax and less time conscious or less goal oriented. Some people are more temperamental and predispose to lower level of tolerance to stress.

Individual response to stress could be influence by life experiences and upbringing. Those who feel lack of control of daily aspects of their life may become frustrated and cause the stress hormone 'cortisol' to increase. Prolong increase of this stress hormone will wreak havoc to hormone balance, increase blood pressure, disrupt sleep and trigger other diseases.

A pessimistic person is more prone to stress as compare to an optimistic person. It is not unheard of that a positive mindset is very important in dealing with stressful situations. How we perceive a situation depends very much on our sub conscious as well as our conscious mind.

Extroverts seems able to handle stress better then introverts. Those who are more outgoing, having wide social support networks and interacts frequently with friends and loved ones seems to respond better to stress compare to those who likes to keep things to themselves.

Some people has the usual habit of pondering over the 'what if' scenario. Our inner thoughts may determine and affect our feelings. We may imagine worst case scenario and negative outcomes that cause heightened stress unnecessary.

Even though it may not be possible for a person to change his or her personality over night in order to cope with behavioral and character related induced stress,nevertheless, understanding such a problem is important and a first step to addressing such issue.

Foremost , you must admit and acknowledge that your personality and habits contribute to the stress that you experienced. Next you must be willing to change and take necessary actions to alleviate the unnecessary stress. Seek help from a councilor, church members or loved ones if necessary.