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A Scale to Measure the Stress of Life Events

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1976
A comprehensive life event inventory suitable for questionnaire or interviewer administration has been constructed. Two sets of matched scalings of these life events have been derived from the responses of an Australian urban population. Each of the scalings were consistent across the sociodemographic groups in the population.
C, Tennant, G, Andrews
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Stressful life events and Graves' disease

The Lancet, 1991
The role of stressful life events in the onset of Graves' disease (toxic diffuse goitre) is controversial. However, the numerous early clinical reports that supported such an association were not adequately controlled and specificity of the diagnosis could be questioned.
B, Winsa, H O, Adami, R, Bergström, A, Gamstedt, P A, Dahlberg, U, Adamson, R, Jansson, A, Karlsson   +7 more
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The Relation of Stressful Life Events to Gender

Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 1983
The contemporary Women's Movement and other social, economic, and historical trends have encouraged interest in examining and understanding the lives of women. There has been a tremendous increase in popular and scholarly writing and research which investigates and documents the richness and variety of women's experiences as well as the many barriers ...
A, Mulvey, B S, Dohrenwend
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Stressful life events and affective illness

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2003
Objective:  To investigate the association between the occurrence of affective illnesses and the number/type of experienced negative stressful life events in a twin material. A case–control study with an unrelated twin as control to the case and a co‐twin control study were both undertaken with the same material.Method:  Postal questionnaire responses ...
E M, Brostedt, N L, Pedersen
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Stressful Life Events and Marital Dysfunction

Psychiatric Services, 1981
The relationship between stress and marital dysfunction was examined in 1979-80 through a study of two demographically matched groups of married couples. The study group consisted of couples who had been referred for therapy for marital problems while the control group had never been referred for psychiatric treatment of any kind.
H W, Bird, A I, Schuham, L, Benson, L L, Gans   +3 more
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The Aetiological Importance of Stressful Life Events

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1983
SummaryDespite a large research effort, there is still some doubt whether life events can increase the rate of psychiatric morbidity. It is argued that this doubt arises from a confusion between measures of goodness of fit and measures of causal importance.
D J, Cooke, D J, Hole
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Stressful life events and physical health

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2006
This review summarizes the findings of recent researches from selected empirical and nonempirical publications focused on stressful life events and physical health.The findings can be divided into biological, psychological, and social issues concerning the important relationship between stressful life events and physical health. Growing evidence in the
Dusica Lecic, Tosevski, Milica Pejovic, Milovancevic   +1 more
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Stressful Life Events and Rorschach Content

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1982
This study investigated the construct validity of Elizur's (1949) Rorschach Content Test anxiety score. The study compared the Rorschach protocols of subjects experiencing high and low life-stress conditions. The Rorschach test was administered to 56 college students, half men and half women, who were selected from a larger group on the basis of their ...
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Stressful Life Events, Culture, and Violence

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2006
This study explored the contributions of stressful life events and their interactions with social support and cultural factors in predicting serious violence among American adolescent immigrants of Chinese and Southeast Asian origins. Youth differed in their exposure to stressors and how they responded to them.
Hieu M, Ngo, Thao N, Le
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Stressful life events and cognitive functioning in late life

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 1995
To determine whether any relation exists between stressful life events and cognitive decline, 275 elderly persons living independently a) underwent cognitive tests at the ages of 70 and 76 years, and b) were interviewed at age 76 as to their recent life history, focusing on stressful events during the preceding six years.
A, Grimby, S, Berg
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