The stress analogy.
The author calls attention to the advantages of using the engineering meaning of stress and strain when applying these terms to describe the effects of social and physical forces on people. Such an analogy opens up the possibility of measuring the amount of damage from excess stresses existing in people, as well as estimating their limits and remaining strengths. It also explains why some people are more affected by a given stressor than other people.
D005790:General Adaptation Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008670:Metals; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000503:physiopathology*
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