TEORII ALE STRESULUI

Abstract

The term stress has appeared since the 17th century and its meaning and its uses have constantly evolved, currently being used both in common and scientifc language (more in the social and medical feld, but also in construction and in the feld of materials study) . The introduction of the term into the medical literature is generally attributed to Hans Selye who was an endocrinologist (he used it in 1946), although the term was already used in the psychiatric literature to describe mental tension. Some of Selye’s experiments and published works took place between 1936-1956, a period in which the current of behaviorism in the feld of psychology also emphasized animal experiments and in medicine the idea that stress could play a role in the emergence of diseases was circulating. In addition, due to World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, interest in stress also increased in the military feld, being concerned with individual vulnerabilities and the effects of stress on military performance. Gradually the emphasis was also placed on the differences in the way danger is perceived and after the 1960s the way people deal with technological progress, the effects of flying outside the Earth, the effects of noise on productivity (later speaking of occupational stress) was also studied ).