The relationship between different changes in personality under acute stress

Abstract

The aim of this study is to idenfity changes in the psychological homeostasis of young people in response to eustress euphoria caused by gaining an unexpected advantage. Volunteers pariticpated in a four-stage pilot study which used a wide-range of inter-deisicplinary methods such as social, physcological, physiological and phscyophsyiological examination. The results of the aforemetnioned pilot study revealed changes in the socio-psychological and physiclogical homeostasis under acute eustress euphoria. Partitcipants’ quality of life, levels of anxiety and arhtimetic skills were shown to significantly differ from normal, and participants’ short-term memory was also shown to have improved. Participants’ colour preferences were, in the context of this pilot study, construed as demonstrating their willingness to co-operate. Exposure to eustress euphoria was demonstrated to have wide ranging effects e.g. paritcipants’ were shown to be more active and well-adjusted than usual.