Risk factors include a history of child abuse or other stress-inducing event.

They were then asked to perform a series of stress-inducing computer tasks.

Twenty participants from each group were subjected to a stress-inducing experience.

Just the thought of cramming another thing into your day is stress-inducing.

Michael has no awareness that he might like to leave all these stress-inducing fringe benefits behind.

They are also less stress-inducing and will no longer alienate the teachers who have to administer them.

The distress and suffering caused by such exposures may add to their stress-inducing effect.

And maybe most importantly in these stress-inducing times, they allow you to truly get off the graft for a few days.

Yet amid all of these dramatic events, the most stress-inducing actually came from a very unexpected source: Germany.

But for shy people, divulging or learning such intimate information is stress-inducing.

He was ready to move on after four grueling, stress-inducing years in one of Washington's most high-stakes positions.

Eating the stuff is not exactly stress-inducing, either.

During chronic stress, the body is subjected to the persistent action of a stress-inducing agent.

A new set of stress-inducing choices needs to be made and different obstacles need to be overcome.

The law’s critics say gavage is hardly more stress-inducing than the many other things humans do to the animals they eat.

Nothing is quite so stress-inducing as a crowd of restless people waiting for you to fill their prescriptions or talk to you.

I asked Professor Turkle what people could do to deal with this stress-inducing quandary.

For as much as he is doing differently away from the racetrack, there are stress-inducing elements to his career that have not changed.

Another stress-inducing trick was the silent treatment.

Chronic Stress: The stress-inducing stimulus appears gradually and tends to increase over time.

Most of the top stress-inducing fears are obvious:

A stress-inducing schedule, petty selfishness, unrealized good intentions, wrong choices.

Bulik is busy these days helping her patients figure out how to navigate all the stress-inducing holiday parties and family gatherings.

Other small studies have found that people have lower blood levels of cortisol, a stress-inducing hormone, after exercising outside compared to inside.

The study findings suggest a potential public health response to future stress-inducing events, says Dr. Pesko.