An examination of individual differences in the relationship between interpersonal stress and disease activity among women with rheumatoid arthritis

Zautra, Alex; Hoffman, Jeanne M.; Matt, Kathleen S.; Yocum, David; Potter, Phillip T.; Castro, William Lesley; Roth, Sanford H.

doi:10.1002/art.1790110408

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“…The number of daily stressors experienced correlates with increases in joint pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (Affleck et al, 1997). Zautra et al (1998) extended this finding by showing that stress is related to changes in the immune system, which are in turn followed by inflammation and increased pain. Patients' indicators of immune activity were higher in a week when they experienced high conflict with their spouses than in a baseline week.…”

Section: Well-being Affects Physical Health and Painmentioning

confidence: 82%

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Diener

Seligman

2004

Psychol Sci Public Interest

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SUMMARY-Policy decisions at the organizational, corporate, and governmental levels should be more heavily influenced by issues related to well-being--people's evaluations and feelings about their lives. Domestic policy currently focuses heavily on economic outcomes, although economic indicators omit, and even mislead about, much of what society values. We show that economic indicators have many shortcomings, and that measures of well-being point to important conclusions that are not apparent from economic indicators alone. For example, although economic output has risen steeply over the past decades, there has been no rise in life satisfaction during this period, and there has been a substantial increase in depression and distrust. We argue that economic indicators were extremely important in the early stages of economic development, when the fulfillment of basic needs was the main issue. As societies grow wealthy, however, differences in well-being are less frequently due to income, and are more frequently due to factors such as social relationships and enjoyment at work.Important noneconomic predictors of the average levels of well-being of societies include social capital, democratic governance, and human rights. In the workplace, noneconomic factors influence work satisfaction and profitability. It is therefore important that organizations, as well as nations, monitor the well-being of workers, and take steps to improve it.Assessing the well-being of individuals with mental disorders casts light on policy problems that do not emerge from economic indicators. Mental disorders cause widespread suffering, and their impact is growing, especially in relation to the influence of medical disorders, which is declining. Although many studies now show that the suffering due to mental disorders can be alleviated by treatment, a large proportion of persons with mental disorders go untreated. Thus, a policy imperative is to offer treatment to more people with mental disorders, and more assistance to their caregivers.Supportive, positive social relationships are necessary for well-being. There are data suggesting that well-being leads to good social relationships and does not merely follow from them. In addition, experimental evidence indicates that people suffer when they are ostracized from groups or have poor relationships in groups. The fact that strong social relationships are critical to well-being has many policy implications. For instance, corporations should carefully consider relocating employees because doing so can sever friendships and therefore be detrimental to well-being.Desirable outcomes, even economic ones, are often caused by well-being rather than the other way around. People high in wellbeing later earn higher incomes and perform better at work than people who report low well-being. Happy workers are better organizational citizens, meaning that they help other people at work in various ways. Furthermore, people high in well-being seem to have better social relationships than people low in wellbeing. ...

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Section: Well-being Affects Physical Health and Painmentioning

confidence: 82%

Beyond Money

Diener

Seligman

2004

Psychol Sci Public Interest

1,802

292

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“…In addition, self-efficacy beliefs influence emotional states; people with higher self-efficacy are likely to have lower stress and depression than others [22]. Therefore, self-efficacy has appeared as an important factor in diabetes selfmanagement behaviors and quality of life [32].…”

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Biopsychosocial Path Model Of Self-management And Quality Of Life In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Bazzazian

2017

JBD

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“…Chronic relationship stress characterized by conflict, mistrust, and instability, although not consistently related to basal levels of proinflammatory cytokines, have been tied to greater lipopolysaccharide-stimulated IL-6 production 6 mo later (16). Similarly, hostile married couples engaging in a conflict interaction in the laboratory had higher levels of IL-6 24 h later compared with those engaging in a supportive interaction (17), and married women with rheumatoid arthritis who experienced more spousal criticism showed an increase in sIL-2R, a marker of disease activity, when experiencing interpersonal stress (18).…”

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Negative and competitive social interactions are related to heightened proinflammatory cytokine activity

Chiang¹,

Eisenberger²,

Seeman

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

105

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Research has consistently documented that social relationships influence physical health, a link that may implicate systemic inflammation. We examined whether daily social interactions predict levels of proinflammatory cytokines IL-6 and the soluble receptor for tumor necrosis factor-α (sTNFαRII) and their reactivity to a social stressor. One-hundred twenty-two healthy young adults completed daily diaries for 8 d that assessed positive, negative, and competitive social interactions. Participants then engaged in laboratory stress challenges, and IL-6 and sTNFαRII were collected at baseline and at 25-and 80-min poststressor, from oral mucosal transudate. Negative social interactions predicted elevated sTNFαRII at baseline, and IL-6 and sTNFαRII 25-min poststressor, as well as total output of sTNFαRII. Competitive social interactions predicted elevated baseline levels of IL-6 and sTNFαRII and total output of both cytokines. These findings suggest that daily social interactions that are negative and competitive are associated prospectively with heightened proinflammatory cytokine activity.competition | social stress | immunology

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An examination of individual differences in the relationship between interpersonal stress and disease activity among women with rheumatoid arthritis

Abstract: Objective. The effects of interpersonal stress on disease activity were examined for married women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

Cited by 110 publications

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Biopsychosocial Path Model Of Self-management And Quality Of Life In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Negative and competitive social interactions are related to heightened proinflammatory cytokine activity

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