About the PSFP
Lifestyle Sections
Program Directors
Section 1: Physiological Symptoms Analysis
Physiological Symptoms Scores provide two different indicators of your physical symptoms. The first score ranges from high to low indicating the degree to which your body is already physically adapting to life stressors. The second score will indicate the "system of your body" that seems to be fatigued and suffering from some level of exhaustion. The most common systems prone to fatigue are the muscular, vascular and gastrointestinal and skin systems.
Section 2: Behavioral Symptoms Analysis
Behavioral Symptoms Scores provide you with a more generalized understanding about how your lifestyle behaviors relating to sleep, panic, anxiety, eating and other known symptoms affect your well-being and management of stress.
Section 3: How Effective Is Your Coping Personality?
Coping Style Analysis identifies two of the more common coping styles you use. Whether you divert, ask friends for advice, or pray, this section will provide you with essential awareness of your coping styles (from the 22 most common). It will assist you in making changes that will provide you with greater physical and emotional balance.
Section 4: Coronary Prone (Type A) Personality
Coronary Prone Personality Scores provide a high to low continuum score, which relate to the 9 traits that make one Coronary Prone. It is essential to understand that high scores are indicative of high stress, but not necessarily type A or "Coronary Prone".
Section 5: Time Management
Time Management Scores provide a continuum from excellent to poor through the analysis of 13 traits that are indicative of the quality of your time management skills. The results will range from excellent to poor and are extremely predictive of other essential profile categories, including your overall Lifestyle Score
Section 6: Social Interaction
Social Interaction Scores provide the categories you most often use when involved with various social situations. They often include a primary and secondary score related to your overall assertiveness, passivity and aggressive reactions to life events.
Section 7: Occupational Stress
Job Stress Scores assess 14 different variables that affect your stress level including incentives, environment, authority, and whether you were trained for your current job. This score provides an accurate indicator of your occupational stress through a high to a low continuum.
Section 8: Exercise and Stress
Exercise and Stress Scores assess your "aerobic capacity” as it relates to intensity, frequency and whether activity is continuous before providing final analysis.
Section 9: Diet and Stress
Dietary Analysis provides a comprehensive analysis of your salt, sugar, fat, caffeine, fiber and nutrient density (overall quality of your diet). There are two different tests to ensure the accuracy of your dietary scores.
Section 10: Causes of Stress
The Causes of your Stress Scores assess your beliefs and philosophies within the context of 10 different hypothetical situations. This Cause of Stress ("how you think") section is one of the most important and predictive scores from your total Stress Profile.
Section 11.Your Total Lifestyle Score
The Lifestyle Score Score is the one result that is a summary of how well you cope and manage stress. This one score is used as a "baseline" to measure the changes in the management of your stress and life. An overall Lifestyle Score score of 600 or more should be the goal for all individuals. A lower score indicates that there are many areas that you can attack or possibly modify to result in positive “here and now” health benefits.