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PSYCHOLOGIC DISTRESS AS A PREDICTOR OF MORTALITY
American Journal of Epidemiology, 1989In a 12-year follow-up study of 610 persons (239 black and 371 white) in Evans County, Georgia, psychologic distress as measured by total score on the Health Opinion Survey, a 20-item questionnaire, was a predictor of mortality. The hazard ratio, comparing the 95th percentile score with the median, was 1.93 (97.5% confidence interval (CI) 1.42-2.62 ...
P D, Somervell +5 more
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Psychological Distress Around Menopause
Psychosomatics, 2001The authors sought to identify a subgroup of women who are likely to experience psychological distress in the period around menopause. A sample of 189 women (mean age=49.49) was selected from the general population and rated for menopausal status, menopausal symptoms, depression, anxiety, perceived control, body image, and sex role. Menopausal symptoms
D, Becker +6 more
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Psychological Distress in a Sample of Teachers
The Journal of Psychology, 1990This article describes a cross-sectional study of the links between job-related stressors and depressive and psychophysiologic symptoms and morale in 67 New York City teachers. The teachers' mean score on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; M = 13.03) was higher than might be expected from average community residents.
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Psychological Distress, Hopelessness and Welfare
Women & Health, 2001This article assesses the validity of the claim that welfare in itself has deleterious psychological consequences for single mothers. The analysis compares single mothers who are recipients of AFDC with single mothers who are not recipients in terms of their depressive symptoms (as measured by the CES-D) and hopelessness (as measured by Pearlin Mastery
S M, Petterson, L V, Friel
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Unemployment, coping and psychological distress
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1997This study addressed the role of coping sytle in anxiety and depression of unemployed people. Two‐hundred thirty‐three people checking in at unemployment services participated. They filled in Carver, Scheier and Weintraub’s (1989) coping measure (COPE), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HAD), gave information as to age, duration of ...
J, Smári +3 more
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Type A, hardiness, and psychological distress
Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1986This study examined the effects of hardiness and Type A behavior to burnout and psychological distress in the face of daily life hassles. Measures of hassles, hardiness, Type A behavior, and psychological distress were collected for 193 employees in the human services over 4 months.
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Social Capital and Psychological Distress
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2011The author proposes a conceptual model to explain the diverse roles of social capital—resources embedded in social networks—in the social production of health. Using a unique national U.S. sample, the author estimated a path analysis model to examine the direct and indirect effects of social capital on psychological distress and its intervening effects
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Psychological distress in adolescents with cancer
Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 1996A exploratory descriptive study was conducted to investigate psychological distress among middle and late adolescents recently diagnosed with cancer. Respondents consisted of 40 males and 20 females who were diagnosed with a malignancy within the past 100 days and received outpatient treatment.
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A scale for the evaluation of psychological distress
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1977A state measure of psychological distress (DI) was developed from the MMPI item pool. The DI scale was found to be reliable (internally consistent and stable) and to be unaffected by social desirability. MMPI measures of stress and anxiety measure external to the MMPI were found to correlate well with the DI scale.
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Social Consistency and Psychological Distress
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1988Various hypotheses have been proposed regarding the stressful nature of a lack of consistency among different dimensions of social status. Three of these, termed respectively the status inconsistency, goal-striving stress, and lifestyle incongruity models, are evaluated with data collected in a southern black community. Of these three models, lifestyle
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