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The social readjustment rating scale
Thomas H. Holmes,Richard H. Rahe +1 more
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This report defines a method which achieves etiologic significance as a necessary but not sufficient cause of illness and accounts in part for the time of onset of disease and provides a quantitative basis for new epidemiological studies of diseases.About:
This article is published in Journal of Psychosomatic Research.The article was published on 1967-08-01. It has received 10629 citations till now.read more
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Immune function in unemployed women.
Bengt B. Arnetz,J. Wasserman,B. Petrini,Sten-Olof Brenner,Lennart Levi,Peter Eneroth,H. Salovaara,Robert Hjelm,L. Salovaara,Tores Theorell +9 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that some aspects of the immune system may be altered at a specific time period following the loss of work, and further studies are needed to see if this effect is only temporary or more long lasting.
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Psychological distress after initial treatment of breast cancer. Assessment of potential risk factors.
TL;DR: Patient and disease characteristics are often mentioned by clinicians as possible risk factors for psychological distress among women with breast cancer, but either these factors have not been evaluated or when they were evaluated, results were inconclusive.
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Stress and medical malpractice: organizational risk assessment and intervention.
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Biobehavioral factors in sudden cardiac death.
Thomas W. Kamarck,J.R. Jennings +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examine the recent literature on psychological factors and sudden cardiac death and explore the mediating psychophysiological processes by which these variables may be associated, calling for increased attention to the acute effects of psychological events on cardiovascular health.
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The stress-buffering effect of self-disclosure on Facebook: An examination of stressful life events, social support, and mental health among college students
TL;DR: The results show that people tend to open up on Facebook when in times of stress and that self-disclosure on Facebook moderates the relationship between stressful life events and mental health.
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Ratio scales and category scales for a dozen perceptual continua.
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Social stress and illness onset.
TL;DR: With one exception, illness onset is dated by inittal recognttion of symptoms judged by experts to be associated with the particular diseases.