Stressors are generally categorized into two types: chronic stressors, which persist over an extended period of time (e.g., caring for a parent with dementia, long-term unemployment, or imprisonment), and acute stressors, which involve brief focal events that may continue to be experienced as overwhelming after the event has ended (e.g., falling on an icy sidewalk and breaking a leg), as defined by Cohen, Janicki-Deverts, and Miller in 2007.

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