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The social readjustment rating scale

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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.
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This article is published in Journal of Psychosomatic Research.The article was published on 1967-08-01. It has received 10629 citations till now.

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Multidimensional causal model of dental caries development in low-income preschool children.

TL;DR: Results confirmed earlier work that suggested that caries development at a 1-year followup was strongly dependent on earlier Caries development, and support the advantages of employing multidimensional models and provide some direction for intervention to reduce caries incidence.
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Psychological and physiological responses to stress: the right hemisphere and the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis, an inquiry into problems of human bonding.

TL;DR: A dissociation of the hemispheres that appears to be responsible for the alexithymic avoidance and failure of the cortisol response that so often follow severe psychological trauma is explored.
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Effect of maternal social support on attachment: experimental evidence.

TL;DR: Experimental evidence regarding the importance of social support on infant attachment and support for an alternative approach for reducing data from the attachment Q-sort are provided.
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Course of depression and anxiety diagnosis in patients treated with hemodialysis: a 16-month follow-up.

TL;DR: Patients at risk for short- and long-term complications of depression can be potentially identified by high levels of depressive affect even at a single time point.
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Studies on the measurement of unpleasant events and relations with depression

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed a psychometrically sound instrument for the measurement of aversive events and tested hypotheses about the occurrence of such events and depression in a group of participants.
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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.
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A metric for the social consensus