How does personality affect a person’s response to stress? it affects the person’s sense of self. it affects assessment of a situation. it affects the person’s self-esteem. it affects the person’s health.

Explanation:

The personality is related with overcoming stressful situations, because it can change the perception about who are we feeling during stress.

According to an article from US National Library of Medicine titled "How Do You Feel? Self-esteem Predicts Affect, Stress, Social Interaction, and Symptom Severity during Daily Life in Patients with Chronic Illness", Self-esteem and stress are close related, it's defined as out self-perception, abilities and skills towards specific situations, feeling capable of. So, a stressful situation often occurs when we cannot solve a specific problem, we lack of some skill or ability, and that could be translated as low self-esteem if we have a non competitive personality, or we tend to easily depress.

In addition, personalities actually help to solve problems, to be resilient, because in many cases a good attitude triggers success. Just think about a person that is introverted, lack of openness and pessimist, normally that person will depress in every single negative or stressful situation.

when comparing the cases, what similarities are there in the cases that suggest one person committed these murders?

answer

ben’s food poisoning was caused by cross-contamination

explanation

cross-contamination in food occurs when harmful bacteria is transferred to food from other foods, utensils or cutting boards. it happens often when handling raw meat , sea foods and poultry. in this case, because ben did not wash hands before and after handing the poultry, chances that bacteria transfer   from the poultry to the vegetable are high.