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Again, many people experience stress but how they experience stress varies. Two concepts important to this literature concern how long individuals or families experience stress. Stress can be chronic (e.g., a person living with asthma is a chronic stressor) or acute (e.g., a person fractures their arm, which is treated and then healed). Whether stress is chronic or acute has implications for the extent to which it influences family dynamics.