title: The cycle of stress--a circular model for the psychobiological response to strain and stress.
abstract: A circular model is presented for the stress reaction. The model is composed of four phases that follow successively one after the other. The circular model which is called the stress cycle incorporates various concepts and terminologies that traditionally have been used in the stress field. The uniqueness of this stress cycle is that it will enable researchers to quantitate several parameters of the cycle such as the frequency, the amplitude and duration of the cycle. The importance of these parameters for stress management education and coping mechanisms are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Morphological Sciences, Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Technion, Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: A Z
authors.initials: AZ
authors.lastname: Reznick
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology*