Do you believe individuals in the United States experience more stress than those in other countries?

Chapter 14 discussion

Discuss the following four questions below.  Provide an initial post supporting your responses with information learned within our textbook (share page you found information/and or quote from our textbook).  Reply to at least two different students.

1) Do you believe individuals in the United States experience more stress than those in other countries? Why or why not?

2) Are individuals really responsible for the unhealthy life styles they may be living, considering how easy our society makes it to be unhealthy with fast food restaurants, remote controls for televisions, easy car purchasing gas prices that are low compared with those in other countries, and having most foods preprocessed for microwave cooking?

3) What areas of psychology discussed in the textbook prior to the present chapter can contribute to health psychology? Explain.

4) Do music videos, cable television, and magazine articles contribute to unsafe sex practices that adolescents take part in, and is it the partial cause for the increase in unplanned and unwanted adolescence pregnancies? Explain.