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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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2 – Dimensions of Life Events That Influence Psychological Distress: An Evaluation and Synthesis of the Literature
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Sociological Perspectives on Life Transitions
Abstract: Research on life translt10ns highlights the normative and nonnormative changes that individuals experience over time. During the past two decades, life course perspectives have provided a strategic context for studying the genesis of life transitions and their personal and social consequences. Both population-based and individual models of transitions have become more complex, focusing on the ways that social and historical contexts shape life transitions. At the individual level, progress has also been made in identifying the mechanisms by which transitions affect outcomes. Research on life
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Alcohol use and alcohol-related problems before and after military combat deployment
Isabel G. Jacobson,Margaret A. K. Ryan,Tomoko I. Hooper,Tyler C. Smith,Paul J. Amoroso,Edward J. Boyko,Gary D. Gackstetter,Timothy S. Wells,Nicole S. Bell +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether deployment with combat exposures was associated with new-onset or continued alcohol consumption, binge drinking, and alcohol-related problems at follow-up.
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Role of stress, arousal, and coping skills in primary insomnia.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the appraisal of stressors and the perceived lack of control over stressful events, rather than the number of stressful events per se, enhance the vulnerability to insomnia.
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Status variations in stress exposure: implications for the interpretation of research on race, socioeconomic status, and gender.
R. Jay Turner,William R. Avison +1 more
TL;DR: The analyses of data collected from 899 young men and women of African American and non-Hispanic white ancestry suggest that status differences in exposure to stress vary considerably by the measure of stress that is employed, and that women are more exposed to recent life events than men, males report more major events and discrimination stress than females.
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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.