Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A term within the role episode model of organizational stress indicating that there is either quantitative or qualitative overload.  

A term within the role episode model of organizational stress indicating that two or more role demands are incompatible with each other.  

A term within the role episode model of organizational stress indicating that the duties, responsibilities, and performance expectations of the job are not clearly defined by organizational leaders.  

The theory that mantra meditation achieves its beneficial effects by tuning people in to natural rhythms that they are biologically programmed to find soothing.  

Individuals who normally limit their food intake to maintain or lose weight.  

Also called secular meditation; a form of mantra meditation pioneered by Benson.  

The process of identifying high-risk relapse situations and then avoiding the risks, making alternative plans, or planning how to best deal with these risks if encountered.  

Gray’s theory that proposes two functionally independent motivational systems called the behavioral approach system and the behavioral inhibition system.  

One of Maslach’s three dimensions of burnout characterized by feelings of diminished self-efficacy, personal competency, and productivity.  

The use of ongoing feedback in Lazarus’s model to make new judgments about the stressful situation.