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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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Clinical Health Psychology in Medical Settings: A Practitioner's Guidebook
TL;DR: This new edition includes expanded discussion of psychometric instruments as well as psychological testing with medical patients and the chapter on liability now identifies highest areas of risk and discusses strategies to reduce liability.
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Predictors of Family Business Tensions and Goal Achievement
TL;DR: This paper investigated predictors of business tensions and family and business goal achievement within family businesses. And they found that family health assessment (APGAR) was the highest predictor of business tension for both household and business managers, and family health was the largest contributor to family goal achievement.
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Chronic and acute stressors among military personnel: do coping styles buffer their negative impact on health?
Arla Day,Holly A. Livingstone +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the moderating impact of positive and negative coping styles on the relationship of acute and chronic job stressors with self-reported health symptoms of 521 military personnel.
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Life Events, Familial Stress, and Coping in the Developmental Course of Schizophrenia
TL;DR: Findings have important implications for the design of clinical interventions as well as the development of a comprehensive vulnerability/stress model for the course of schizophrenic disorders.
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Stressful Life Events
TL;DR: Sociologists often use the stress process model, a theoretical framework, for analyzing the social origins of health as mentioned in this paper, which can be used to study the effect of stress on well-being.
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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.