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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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In-hospital symptoms of psychological stress as predictors of long-term outcome after acute myocardial infarction in men
TL;DR: There was little evidence of impact among patients with low levels of stress in the hospital, and highly stressed patients who took part in the 1-year program of stress monitoring and intervention did not experience any significant long-term increase in risk.
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Supports, stressors, and depressive symptoms in low-income mothers of young children.
TL;DR: Comparing the relative importance of two different types of support--the quality of primary intimate relationships, and the social network--only the quality of the husband-intimate relationship was associated with CES-D scores among married women, whereas thesocial network demonstrated a moderate, inverse association with CES, D scores among unemployed women.
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The use and abuse of consumer credit: Application of psychological theory and research
TL;DR: The authors explored whether theory and research in consumer behavior, psychology, and substance abuse can distinguish between consumers who can or cannot use consumer credit effectively, with particular interest paid to the additional predictive ability of psychological variables beyond that provided by background characteristics and adverse life events.
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Cytokine dysregulation associated with exam stress in healthy medical students.
Gailen D. Marshall,Sandeep K. Agarwal,Camille Lloyd,Lorenzo Cohen,Evelyn M. Henninger,Gloria J. Morris +5 more
TL;DR: Data suggest that psychologically stressful situations shift type-1/type-2 cytokine balance toward type-2 and result in an immune dysregulation rather than overall immunosuppression, which may partially explain the increased incidence ofType-2-mediated conditions such as increased viral infections, latent viral expression, allergic/asthmatic reactions, and autoimmunity reported during periods of high stress.
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Marital status changes and body weight changes: a US longitudinal analysis.
TL;DR: Examination of changes in marital status and body weight in 9043 adults in the NHEFS, a longitudinal national study, suggests that changes in social roles, such as entering or leaving marriage, influence physical characteristics such as body weight.
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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.