Stressors, Stress, and Distress

Wheaton, Blair; Montazer, Shirin

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“…For those living in poverty, stressors tend to co-occur, accumulate, and persist. Chronic stressors that are more common among the poor include living in communities with crime; crowding; noise; air pollution; high household density; housing instability/frequent relocation; financial strain and food insecurity; long-term unemployment or underemployment; exposure to carcinogens and pathogens in air, water, buildings, and soil; and lack of adequate or good-quality health care (AHRQ, 2006; Busacker & Kasehagen, 2012; Coleman-Jensen, Nord, Andrews, & Carlson, 2011; Fleming, Baum, Davidson, Rectanus, & McArdle, 1987; Morello-Frosch, Zuk, Jerrett, Shamasunder, & Kyle, 2011; Ockenfels et al, 1995; Wheaton & Montazer, 2010). …”

Section: Conceptualization Of Stress To Study Disparitiesmentioning

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Shedding Light on the Mechanisms Underlying Health Disparities Through Community Participatory Methods

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Lanzi

et al. 2013

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Health disparities are large and persistent gaps in the rates of disease and death between racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status subgroups in the population. Stress is a major pathway hypothesized to explain such disparities. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development formed a community/research collaborative—the Community Child Health Network—to investigate disparities in maternal and child health in five high-risk communities. Using community participation methods, we enrolled a large cohort of African American/Black, Latino/Hispanic, and non-Hispanic/White mothers and fathers of newborns at the time of birth and followed them over 2 years. A majority had household incomes near or below the federal poverty level. Home interviews yielded detailed information regarding multiple types of stress such as major life events and many forms of chronic stress including racism. Several forms of stress varied markedly by racial/ethnic group and income, with decreasing stress as income increased among Caucasians but not among African Americans; other forms of stress varied by race/ethnicity or poverty alone. We conclude that greater sophistication in studying the many forms of stress and community partnership is necessary to uncover the mechanisms underlying health disparities in poor and ethnic-minority families and to implement community health interventions.

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Section: Conceptualization Of Stress To Study Disparitiesmentioning

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Shedding Light on the Mechanisms Underlying Health Disparities Through Community Participatory Methods

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“…Such an approach provides measurements that are believed to be more ecologically valid, and that reduce the impact of recall bias by asking people to report on experiences close in time to when they occur (Smyth & Heron, 2012; Smyth et al, 2017). Importantly, research has suggested that measures of daily stress are independently related to distress compared to other more traditional measures, including assessing recent life stressors, levels of chronic stress, and childhood trauma (Wheaton & Montazer, 2010). …”

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Understanding stress reports in daily life: a coordinated analysis of factors associated with the frequency of reporting stress

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Although stress is a common experience in everyday life, a clear understanding of how often an individual experiences and reports stress is lacking. Notably, there is little information regarding factors that may influence how frequently stress is reported, including which stress dimension is measured (i.e., stressors—did an event happen, subjective stress—how stressed do you feel, conditional stress—how stressful a stressor was) and the temporal features of that assessment (i.e., time of day, day of study, weekday vs. weekend day). The purpose of the present study was to conduct a coordinated analysis of five independent ecological momentary assessment studies utilizing varied stress reporting dimensions and temporal features. Results indicated that, within days, stress was reported at different frequencies depending on the stress dimension. Stressors were reported on 15–32% of momentary reports made within a day; across days, the frequency ranged from 42 to 76% of days. Depending on the cutoff, subjective stress was reported more frequently ranging about 8–56% of all moments within days, and 40–90% of days. Likewise, conditional stress ranged from just 3% of moments to 22%, and 11–69% of days. For the temporal features, stress was reported more frequently on weekdays (compared to weekend days) and on days earlier in the study (relative to days later in the study); time of day was inconsistently related to stress reports. In sum, stress report frequency depends in part on how stress is assessed. As such, researchers may wish to measure stress in multiple ways and, in the case of subjective and conditional stress with multiple operational definitions, to thoroughly characterize the frequency of stress reporting.

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“…Stressors refer to life events that have the potential to disrupt an organism's equilibrium, whereas stress refers to the organism's subjective reaction to stressors (Selye, 1956;Wheaton and Montazer, 2010). Hence, the titles of such articles as "Does stress damage the brain?"…”

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50 Differences That Make a Difference: A Compendium of Frequently Confused Term Pairs in Psychology

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An adequate understanding of specialized terminology is a prerequisite for the mastery of core concepts across all scientific disciplines, including psychological science. In a previous article (Lilienfeld et al., 2015), we presented an annotated list of 50 widely used psychological terms that should generally be avoided, or at best used judiciously and with qualifications in select cases. Herein, we offer a "sequel" by presenting a list of 50 term pairs in psychology and allied fields (e.g., psychiatry, cultural anthropology, and statistics) that are commonly confused in academic writing, popular writing, or both. We draw these terms from multiple domains of psychology, including Sensation, Perception, Learning, and Memory; Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior; Personality Psychology; Psychopathology; and Research Methodology and Statistics. Many of these terms are frequently confused not merely by beginning psychology students but also by advanced psychology students, psychology instructors, and science journalists. Our list of commonly confused psychological term pairs should hopefully be a modest contribution toward enhancing psychological literacy and critical thinking in psychology more broadly.

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Stressors, Stress, and Distress

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Shedding Light on the Mechanisms Underlying Health Disparities Through Community Participatory Methods

Shedding Light on the Mechanisms Underlying Health Disparities Through Community Participatory Methods

Understanding stress reports in daily life: a coordinated analysis of factors associated with the frequency of reporting stress

50 Differences That Make a Difference: A Compendium of Frequently Confused Term Pairs in Psychology

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