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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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Hardiness protects against war-related stress in Army Reserve forces.

TL;DR: This paper examined personality hardiness as a potential protective variable among Army reserve personnel mobilized for the Persian Gulf War and found that hardiness interacted with both combat-related stress and stressful life events to predict psychiatric symptoms on several measures.
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Classification of Depressed Patients: A Cluster Analysis Derived Grouping

TL;DR: The emergence of these multiple and easily interpretable groups of depressed patients suggests that non-psychotic depressives are diverse and comprise several groups, and suggests the utility of cluster analysis grouping techniques for studying the classification of psychiatric patients.
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Life Events as Stressors in Childhood and Adolescence

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the effects of life changes on children and the extent to which they experience significant life changes, such events are a potential source of stress to which all children are exposed to a greater or lesser degree.
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Facial expressions of emotion and the course of conjugal bereavement.

TL;DR: Predictive relations between negative and positive emotional expression persisted when initial levels of self-reported emotion, grief, and health were statistically controlled, demonstrating the mediating role of facial expressions of emotion in adjustment to conjugal loss.
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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