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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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Job strain and psychological distress in white-collar workers.
TL;DR: The results support the association between job strain and psychological distress and social support at work, although significantly associated with psychological distress, did not modify the association.
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Perfectionism, stress, and vulnerability to depression
Paul L. Hewitt,Dennis G. Dyck +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relation between stressful life events, perfectionism, and relative depression in a university sample was studied and the relationship between stressful events and depression was significant only for participants who scored above the median on a scale of perfectionistic attitudes.
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Intimates as agents of social support: sources of consolation or despair?
TL;DR: Congruent intimates were just as effective in insulate low self-esteem targets against positive feedback as they were in insulating high self- esteem individuals against negative feedback.
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Presumptive stressful life events scale (psles) - a new stressful life events scale for use in India.
TL;DR: It was calculated that individuals in the authors' society are likely to experience an average of two stressful life events in the past one year and ten events in a life time without suffering any adverse physical or psychological disturbance.
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A stress management workshop improves residents' coping skills.
Jack D. McCue,Carol L. Sachs +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that a modest, inexpensive stress management workshop was received positively, and can lead to significant short-term improvement in stress and burnout test scores for medicine and pediatrics residents.
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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.