What's Your Stress Level? This quiz is designed to see just how you handle stress. Stress is a part of everyone's life, but certain people react different to it. Do you freak out under pressure? Or are you calm, cool and collected in the face of stress? This quiz will help you determine just what stress style you are! (this test was developed from source: seventeen magazine, January 1997) 1. You have just put the final touches on your final project for English class. It's taken you months to gather all your info, but you just started typing it the night before. You accidentally delete your Word file. It's gone for good, so you turn off your computer and go watch TV. You realize that you can't possibly finish this thing, so why should you bother? feel like throwing up, so you fall to the floor in the fetal position and pray this is all just a bad dream. take a break to collect your thoughts. You gather your notes together and start again. 2. It's the bottom of the ninth, bases are loaded, you're playing outfield on your school softball team. The last batter comes up to bat. Your team is ahead by one point. The batter hits a fly ball right at you. You concentrate. You keep your eye on the ball, confident that all your practice will pay off. stand back and hope one of the other outfielders will come and catch it. PANIC. As you start to run around in circles you trip over your own two feet, and collapse to the ground crying like a baby. 3. You're at an all-you-can-eat Chinese Buffet. You're wolfing down on chicken fried rice when you notice the man sitting behind you is choking on a chicken ball. You rush over, and without hesitation administer the Heimlich maneuver. You've read the instructional posters in your school cafeteria, and you know exactly what to do. stare frozen. All that you can think is, "I'm glad I didn't have the chicken balls!" yell, "Do something! Oh, God somebody do something!", as you run around maniacally. 4. Your two best friends aren't speaking to each other. They've both been confiding in you, and you're caught in the middle. You freak out on both of them for trying to make you pick sides, and turn it into a three way fight! sit them both down and say, "I know that you both care too much about each other to keep fighting like this, let's work things out!" tell them that they're both childish and immature, and hang out with new friends until they resolve their argument. 5. Your Grandmother is coming to visit, so your Mom is going on another cleaning binge. You scream at her to calm down, citing that your Grandmother has probably seen more than one dirty room in her lifetime! take your screaming little siblings outside. If your Mom's having a fit, it's better if the little ones don't make it worse. hide in your room until your Mom's done! This isn't your problem! 6. Your new boyfriend/girlfriend corners you in the school cafeteria. Your waiting for them to propose plans for a hot Friday night, but instead they cancel Thursday's lunch date. You start to pout, and eventually break into tears. Through the sobs your significant other can hear you chanting, "No! You can't leave me!". start to laugh and say bitterly, "Whatever! I don't care, you do what you like!" say calmly, "Oh. Okay. Why? Did something come up?" 7. You're getting ready for a hot date when you notice that not only have you sprouted a huge pimple, but the cool shiny pants you were going to wear smell like formaldehyde from when you dropped the fetal pig on your lap in Biology class. Aggh! You wear your old jeans, even though it was a dress-up party, and hide in a dark corner all night. speed-dial your best friend and ask to borrow something cool to wear, and get emergency advice on your pimple. refuse to go out. A face that looks like a war zone is not your idea of the sexy party look, and you've been called Piggy-Wiggy enough for one day. 8. You slept in, and now you have less than 2 minutes to make it to work on time. It takes at least 10 minutes to get there on a normal day, in normal traffic. The highway is all backed up, you try and stay calm, drive at a moderate, safe speed knowing that you can't do anything about it. see that this traffic isn't going to move anytime soon, and abandon your car and run the rest of the way to work. figure you're already late so you turn around and go back home. If you can't make it there on time, why bother? 9. You've had the worst day in the history of bad days. Everything that could have gone wrong did. All you want is to go home and relax in front of the TV. But your little brother insists on watching a rerun of Murder She Wrote when Dawson's Creek is on. You hit him about the head until he subsides, or is knocked unconscious. sit there, watch Angela Landsbury, hate the show and pout. ask him to change it, when he refuses you leave and call your best friend and make sure they're taping Dawson. 10. When the guy/girl you've been swooning over for the last month finally calls, your little brother answers and tells your love that you've gone to the pharmacy to get cream for this mysterious rash you have all over your body. When you find out about this you tell the kid he's an idiot, insist your parents teach him proper phone manners, and make a joke of the whole thing when you call your crush back. cry. Tell your little brother you hate him, and decapitate his favorite action figure, then cry some more. move on. It would be easier to find a new crush than try and rehabilitate things after a blow like that! 11. Your significant other wants you to go to a family dinner party with them. You've already told your buddy's you'd go see the new Bruce Willis movie with them that night. You want to see the movie, and you don't want to disappoint your guy/girl, so you tell both of them you can't make it, and stay home. Better that you disappoint both of them than try and pick sides! try and see an early show, then rush to the family dinner. You convince yourself that you can squeeze both in. tell your buddies that you can see the movie anytime, but your spouse's family dinner is important to them and thus important to you. You make it up to you friends later by hosting a Bruce Willis movie marathon for them. 12. You're trying to organize an talent show at your school. You've already sold out the performance, but it's the night before and you still haven't found any acts. You take the money, change your name and start going to a different school. tell everyone you screwed up, there's no talent show, give them all their money back. perform the show yourself! You've seen people juggle before, it can't be that hard!