organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

Although stress is a concept that has interestedpsychologisrs for many years, early studies on stress wereresmcted to the field of medicine.Phys~olo~st. Walter Canon (1914), had used the term stressto describe emotional states that had detr~mental physical resultson organismsIn 1935. he modified the use of the term todescnbe the physlcal stimuli and used the term stran to mean theorganism s responseHo\\ever, rhc work of Hans Sel!e (19361 is generallycons~dercd to bc the first major discussion on stress as anexclus~ve phenomenon Sevle absented a phenomenon called theGeneral Adnptation Syndrome (GAS1 It was described as the bodllyresponse to prolonged stressful curumstances m the form ofphy~~olopcd. psycholo@cal and behavloural responses.The modern theonst who has conmbuted moat on stress uL.nrur11966 and 1971). who pomts out. that both the85