Change: to transform or become different.

Quality of life: your level of personal well-being and satisfaction with your life, what the conditions of your life are.

Stress: pressure, nervous, tension and anxiety, constant worry, strain.

Anxiety: worry, nervousness or unease.

Stressors: things that cause stress or pressure.

Personality: qualities, actions, behaviour and attitude that make a person unique.

CHAPTER 1: DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF IN SOCIETY

UNIT 1: LIFE SKILLS REQUIRED TO ADAPT TO CHANGE AS PART OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CHOICES: IDENTIFY

STRESSES, ASSESS AND MANAGE STRESS

Identity stressors

Stress is a reaction caused by ongoing, increasing or new pressures or demands. When the pressures are more than

your coping skills, you may feel overcome by:

- Constant nervous tension or anxiety

- Too much to do

- Too many problems to solve

- Too many things happening over which you think you have no control

Physical stressors

- Lack of physical exercise

- Physical or sexual abuse

- Illness

- Injury

- Hunger

- Accidents

- Overtiredness

- Physical disabilities

- Unhealthy lifestyle choices

Environmental stressors

- Pollution

▪ Air pollution (traffic)

▪ Water pollution (waste from factories)

- Natural disasters

▪ Fire, floods & droughts

- Dangerous environments where violence is part

of life

- Harmful living conditions that lack basic facilities

such as water, electricity and proper shelter

- Lack of private space at home

- Noise pollution

- Physical factors (lack of fresh air, sunlight and

privacy)

Emotional stressors

- Feelings

▪ Constant worry

▪ Nervousness

▪ Anxiety

▪ Jealousy

▪ Anger

▪ Disappointment

▪ Rejection

▪ Hate

- Thoughts

- Reactions to life crises and change

▪ Unplanned pregnancy

▪ Death of a parent or family member

▪ Failing

▪ Divorce of parents

▪ Job loss

- Personality

- Image of yourself

- Change

▪ moving

▪ starting a new job

▪ marriage

▪ transition from school to adult life

Social stressors

Family & society

− divorce or death in the family

− family responsibilities

− family pressure to succeed

− arguments with family members

− trouble with the law

− poverty, financial difficulties, debt

− stigma

− gender discrimination

Friends and peers

- peer pressure

- breaking up a friendship or relationship

- loneliness

- unpopularity

- being unsure of others

- teasing and name calling

- bullying

- pressure to join a gang or to party

Grade 12 Life Orientation notes

Life Orientation

FET

High School - South Africa

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