Portfolio 2

This folder contains the instruments for your Stress and Stress Management Portfolio. Some people don't realize how much or how little stress they have in their lives, or how some things are "building up." Quite often, we will skip sleep or excercise "just this once" because we are running from work to school, or our carefully timed schedule is knocked out of alignment. Or, we don't realize that taking care of ourselves means we actually get more done.

Work through the sections of this folder, then complete an analysis and report in a word document. Submit the word document via the submission tab. 

How much stress are you under?

Take at least two of these instruments. What did they say? Do you agree or disagree with the evaluation? Are you surprised?

Berkeley

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/take_quiz/8

• Psychology Today

  http://psychologytoday.tests.psychtests.com/take_test.php?idRegTest=3200

• Holmes and Rahe Event Scale

  http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTCS_82.htm

• Work Addiction Risk Test

  Work-Addiction Risk Test.pdf 

How well do you eat?

Take at least two of the how well you are eating instruments, then compare it to what you should be eating.  Studies indicate that most human beings drastically over-estimate their activity level and under-estimate their caloric intake, resulting in skewed expectations about their weight management performance.

Nutrition and Healthy Eating Quizzes

http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/HealthyEating.aspx

http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-and-nutrition-pictures/quiz-how-healthy-is-your-diet.aspx

http://preventcancer.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reduce_diet_quiz

• How do I find out what to eat?

  http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pyramid-full-story/

How fit are you?

As usual, take two of the instruments.   Depending upon your background, some of this information may surprise you.

Fitness Assessment

http://www.medicinenet.com/exercise_and_fitness_quiz/quiz.htm

http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/information/womens-fitness-quiz.htm

http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Fitness.aspx

How well do you sleep?

Why do we sleep? How long is long enough or too long or too short? What happens when we sleep?

Take one of the quizzes on your sleeping habits, then read up on the cognitive effects of sleep deprivation.

NIH Sleep Quiz

• WebMD Sleep Quiz

• Basics of Sleep and Effect on Cognition

• Sleep Deprivation

  Attached Files:

  •  dfd3.pdf (176.783 KB)

  This is a published academic study, but it's only 13 pages. YOU MUST READ THIS DOCUMENT, and comment in your sleep section on the information contained here. 

• Sleep disorders

What are you going to do about it?

Okay, you have worked your way through 4 seperate folders and hopefully gathered some information. Now, you should be creating a 4 section document. Within the sections you should be telling me what instruments you took, did you agree or disagree with them, did you learn anything, are you going to change anything?