The Relation of Psychological Stress to Onset of Medical Illness

Hurst, Michael W.; Jenkins, C. David; Rose, Robert M.

doi:10.1146/annurev.me.27.020176.001505

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“…22,41,42,44,67,78,82,83,84,97,129) and provide an easy entree into it. The major manifestations most often studied are angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, and sudden death.…”

Section: Cardiovascular Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

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Stress and Health

Kasl¹

1984

Annu. Rev. Public Health

116

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“…22,41,42,44,67,78,82,83,84,97,129) and provide an easy entree into it. The major manifestations most often studied are angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, and sudden death.…”

Section: Cardiovascular Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A number of very useful and comprehensive reviews of psychosocial risk factors in cancer are available (13,26,31,44,46,47,48,78,121,129,136,166); some authors have offered particularly good analyses of methodological problems (e.g. 46,136).…”

Section: Cancermentioning

confidence: 99%

Stress and Health

Kasl¹

1984

Annu. Rev. Public Health

116

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“…These results suggest one reason why life change scores based on individual ratings have been more productive in prospective research than have life change scores based on the normative LCU or LCW totals that have been the mainstay of retrospective studies (17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26). Life change assessments based on individual ratings may reflect the strain being experienced by an individual's psychological and physiological systems.…”

Section: Assessment Of Life Change Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The problems in methodology of quantifying life change assessment are particularly important because the results from retrospective and prospective research are not entirely consistent (4,7,(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19). The difference in findings has stimulated new indices of life stress and some controversy in the appropriate scaling metrics one might use.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Assessment of Life Change Stress: A Comparative and Methodological Inquiry

Hurst¹,

Jenkins²,

Rose³

1978

Psychosomatic Medicine

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A comprehensive life events questionnaire was administered to 416 men. Total life change scores were computed from published normative weights and from individuals' own ratings of events that occurred. The results showed that the rank order of life events was highly correlated between our sample and the original normative groups. However, in the population of men we studied, there were significant differences between the total life event scores derived by summing the published normative weights and the total adjustment or distress reported by those men who experienced the events. Other results indicated that life event scores based on normative weights reflect more on the number of life events that are experienced, whereas life change scores based on individuals' ratings may better reflect on the potential impact of life change. Finally, the psychometric properties of several life change inventories are poor.

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“…A quick overview of the social science and medicine literature concerned with psychological and social risk factors in illness (1)(2)(3)(4)(5) readily reveals that most of the studies are concerned with chronic conditions, and that relatively few examine acute illness episodes or infectious diseases; the older work on tuberculosis (e.g., 6, 7) appears to be the one exception to this generalization. For example, a recent review of "onset conditions for psychosomatic symptoms" (8] covers 53 studies, but only 3 of them deal with acute illness.…”

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Psychosocial Risk Factors in the Developmental of Infectious Mononucleosis*

Kasl

Evans

Niederman

1979

Psychosomatic Medicine

182

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In a 4-year prospective seroepidemiological study of infectious mononucleosis (IM) of one class of some 1400 cadets at the West Point Military Academy, sugceptibles and immunes were identified by the absence or presence of antibody to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the causative agent, and new infections by the appearance of antibody (seroconversion). On entry, about Va lacked EBV antibody, of whom some 20% became infected (seroconverted); about Vi of seroconverters developed definite, clinical and recognized IM. Psychosocial factors that significantly increased the risk of clinical IM among seroconverters included: 1) having fathers who were "overachievers"; 2) having a high level of motivation; 3) doing relatively poorly academically. The combination of high motivation and poor academic performance interacted in predicting clinical IM. Additional data on presence of elevated titers among seroconverters with inapparent disease and on length of hospitalization among cases of clinical IM revealed that these two additional indices of infection or illness could also be predicted from the same set of psychosocial risk factors.

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The Relation of Psychological Stress to Onset of Medical Illness

Cited by 58 publications

References 14 publications

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The Assessment of Life Change Stress: A Comparative and Methodological Inquiry

Psychosocial Risk Factors in the Developmental of Infectious Mononucleosis*

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