PSY101: Week 4 Assignment

PSY101: Week 4 Assignment Page 1 ` © 201 5 Fortis Online Life Events Stress Test This assignment supports the following objective(s): • Explain how stress affects one’s health and well -being. Assignment overview What are the stressors in your life? For this assignment, you will take the Life Events Stress Test and discuss how the events have affected your life. You will also describe actions you can take to reduce the bad stress known as “distress” and turn it in to good stress known as “ eustress ”. Deliverables  One Word document (approximately 500 words)  Name the document using the proper file naming convention:

PSY101_wk4_assn_jsmith_mmddyyyy Assignment details: Perform the following tasks: 1. Take the Life Events Stress Test. 2. Indicate your results and discuss how these events have affected your health and well -being. 3. What actions can you take to reduce stress in your life? 4. How can you turn distress into eustress ? Rubric : See assignment rubric for grading details. Grading : Gradable items in assignment Points Res ults of the test described and effect on health and well -being 20 Actions to be taken described 35 Described changing distress into eustress 35 Spelling and grammar 10 Total Points 100