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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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The Test of Time in School-Based Mentoring: The Role of Relationship Duration and Re-Matching on Academic Outcomes
Jean Baldwin Grossman,Jean Baldwin Grossman,Christian S. Chan,Sarah E. O. Schwartz,Jean E. Rhodes +4 more
TL;DR: The influence of match length and re-matching on the effectiveness of school-based mentoring was studied in the context of a national, randomized study of 1,139 youth in Big Brothers Big Sisters programs.
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Influence of life event stress on physical illness: substantive effects or methodological flaws?
David H. Schroeder,Paul T. Costa +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the hypothesis that the reported relationship between life event stress and physical illness is primarily a function of criterion and other content contamination in the stress measure, and suggest that alternative approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of stress may need to be developed.
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Factors moderating physical and psychological symptoms of battered women
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated physical and psychological symptoms of battered women based on the theory that their ongoing victimization would produce stress-related symptoms, and they found that women who could predict abuse experienced more symptoms.
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Psychological stress and the subsequent appearance of new brain MRI lesions in MS.
David C. Mohr,D. E. Goodkin,Peter Bacchetti,A. C. Boudewyn,L. Huang,P. Marrietta,W. Cheuk,B. Dee +7 more
TL;DR: Support is provided for the notion that conflict and disruption in routine are related to subsequent disease activity in MS, however, this relationship is not sufficiently robust to predict clinical exacerbations reliably in individual patients.
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How the mind hurts and heals the body.
TL;DR: The author reviews some of the social and behavioral factors acting on the brain that influence health, illness, and death and proposal for understanding health and illness provides both the concepts and the mechanisms for studying and explaining mind-body relationships.
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Ratio scales and category scales for a dozen perceptual continua.
S. S. Stevens,E. H. Galanter +1 more
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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.