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Social Consistency and Psychological Distress

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1988
Various 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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Psychological Distress and Hypertension Control

Journal of Human Stress, 1980
Ninety-nine hypertensive patients who had been on antihypertensive therapies for at least six months because of diastolic blood pressure of 105 mg Hg or more were interviewed immediately after seeing their physicians. A four-item scale was used to separate those exhibiting the highest amount of psychological distress (18 patients) from the remainder of
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Psychological distress and occupational asthma

Current Opinion in Allergy & Clinical Immunology, 2009
To summarize recent findings on the psychological impact of occupational asthma, on the basis of a review of medical and psychological literature published between 1998 and 2008. For the purposes of this review, 'psychological impacts' are defined as the experience of psychological stress or distress, which refers to the experience of negative emotions
Kim L, Lavoie, Maryann, Joseph, Simon L, Bacon   +2 more
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Psychological Distress, Hopelessness and Welfare

Women & Health, 2001
This 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, 1997
This 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, E, Arason, H, Hafsteinsson, S, Ingimarsson   +3 more
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Social Capital and Psychological Distress

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2011
The 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 ...
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Cancer and Psychological Distress

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 1999
Summary Social problem-solving ability has previously been found to be an important coping mechanism in predicting distress reactions to stressful events in the general population. This article describes two studies that empirically evaluated the applicability of these findings to the psychooncology literature by assessing the relationship between ...
Chrisline Maguth Nezu, Arthur M. Nezu, Stephanie H. Friedman, Peter S. Houts, Lisa A. Dellicarpini, Cheryl Bildner, Shirley Faddis   +6 more
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The Assessment of Psychological Distress

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 1992
ABSTRACT. This paper describes the assessment of psychological distress symptoms in the hospitalized physically ill elderly using a screening instrument known as the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) (Åsberg et al. 1978). The methodological properties of this scale and a subscale known as the Montgomery Åsberg Depression Scale ...
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Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress

Psychological Medicine, 2002
R. Kessler, G. Andrews, L. Colpe, È. Hiripi, D. Mroczek, S. Normand, E. Walters, A. Zaslavsky   +7 more
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Psychological Distress in the Era of Psychological Safety

Journal of General Internal Medicine
There has been a growing disconnect between learners and educators within medical education. As the landscape of medical education has been altered post-pandemic and cultural shifts favor "safe spaces," we sought to explore the tension that exists between a sense of safety and the discomfort inherent within the learning process.
Alissa Zeglin, Madeline McCarthy, Susan Nedorost, Michael Dell, Lia Logio   +4 more
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