Mária Kopp

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association between job insecurity and self-rated health, and whether the relationship differs by country or individual-level characteristics, and found no effect of job insecurity in Belgium and Sweden.

TL;DR: Vital exhaustion is associated with perceived cardiovascular complaints and history of cardiovascular treatment, whereas depressive symptomatology seems to be more closely connected to disabilities and complaints related to alcohol, drug, and congenital-disorder, and to dysfunctional cognitions and hostility.

TL;DR: The results of the present study suggest that the assessment of psychosocial factors, particularly the ongoing assessment of anxiety, could help in risk stratification and identification of patients at risk of mortality and cardiovascular morbidity after cardiac surgery.

TL;DR: There are gender differences in the relations of specific social capital indicators to mortality rates, at the same time, perceptions of social capital within each sex were associated with mortality rates in the opposite sex.

TL;DR: Chronic stress theory is proposed as an integrating theory that can be applied to different psychological models and is applicable to the explanation of the suddenly changing patterns of premature mortality rates in transforming societies.