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If you categorize the stressors, it would be as follows:

1) Physicochemical stressor
External environment represented by "nature." For example, change in climate and weather.
Pollution, disaster, and chemical substance are also in this category.
2) Social stressor
The "social environment." For example, change in economic condition, international position of a country are them. On individual level, life environment such as work, home, and school, human relationship.
3) Biological stressor
The internal environment. Some change occurred inside our body. Sickness and injury would be the easiest example for this. Others include fatigue, lack in sleeping time, time rag, etc.
4) Mental stressor
Psychological condition such as pleasantness and unpleasantness. Mostly caused by above stressors.

Each stressors are closely related and work to cause stress condition in a person. It is probably easy to understand that you cannot discuss each types independently. Not only the unfavorable mental conditions such as madness, impatience, listlessness, frustration, emotional conflict, and nervousness, but also good mental conditions as hope, expectation, and happiness are all examples of mental stressors.


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