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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Life stress"”.
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Dysfunctional Attitudes, Life Stress and Coping Processes
… of recent investigations earmarked chronic daily stressors as being highly related to stress levels. In addition, researchers are promoting a more integrative model of stress. The stress response is no longer thought of in strictly linear terms, i.e. an event causes stress. Rather, cognitive …
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Serial Learning and Conditioning Under Real-Life Stress
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:50:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0013452.pdf: 5115888 bytes, checksum: 8bb1e2bac12e5344c1e19ab37d11b9d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1955
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Life Stress and Risk for Major Depression: A Latent Profile Analysis
… and accounts for more years of ‘healthy’ life lost than any other medical condition. Half of all individuals with an initial onset of MDD will experience recurrences, whereas half will have only one or very few lifetime episodes. The Dual Pathway Model (DPM) proposes that major life stress …
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Behavioural, immunological, and neurobiological effects of early life stress in rats
Early life stress (ELS), primarily encompassing childhood neglect and abuse, is associated with many adverse psychiatric and physical health outcomes in later life. What remains unclear, however, is precisely how these links are mediated. Answering this question is challenging, partly because there …
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The Effect of Life Stress on the Athletic Injuries of Intercollegiate Wrestlers
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Assessing the impact of mindfulness and life stress on maternal well-being
… a particularly high-risk period for affective distress—the postpartum. In this study, we tested within-person and between-person associations between maternal mindfulness and symptoms of anxiety and depression across the first 18 months postpartum. We further investigated whether mindfulness …
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The intergenerational transmission of trauma: attachment, adverse childhood experiences, and current life stress
… links among caregivers' ACEs, current life stress, attachment, and child psychopathology, few studies have examined these pathways. This is particularly important in American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) populations, for which a history of systemic oppression has contributed to high …
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Transgenerational Attachment, Life Stress, and the Development of Disruptive Behavior in Preschool Children
… of attachment, behavioral disorders, and life stress separately, research integrating these concepts has just recently begun (DeKlyen, 1996). The current study focuses on the links between transgenerational attachment, life stress, maternal psychopathology, and the development of behavior …
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Novel insights into early life stress-induced dysfunction of the gut-brain axis
… bowel syndrome, has a major impact on quality of life. Given the increasing prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome over the past number of years, as well as a lack of effective treatments for disorders of visceral pain, new strategies need to be undertaken to develop successful interventions. The …
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Perceptions of Childhood Abuse and Life Stress: Contributors to Increase in Binge Eating Behavior
<p>Many studies reported that childhood abuse and stress play contributory roles in the development and maintenance of disordered eating behaviors. However, these studies made no mentioned efforts to validate their self-report data, and thus failed to separate the effects of actuality versus …
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The moderating effects of executive functioning on the relationship between life stress and depression
… a significant problem, which is often related to stressful life events. Individual responses to life stress can vary depending on vulnerability factors, such as ability to regulate emotions. Studies have demonstrated that emotion regulation involves executive functioning abilities. Executive …
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Nucleus accumbens GABAA receptor-mediated inhibitory transmission: Relevance to early life stress and addiction
… mice I then employed a mouse model of early life stress (ELS) to investigate the impact of early-life adverse experiences on cocaine-induced behaviours and the putative role of NAcore GABAARs in this interaction. An established fragmented maternal care paradigm was implemented to produce ELS. …
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The Effects of Life Stress and Risk-Taking Style on Risk Perception and Driver Performance
… study examined the effects of risk-taking style, stress level, and highway environment on driver performance. In Phase I, 50 subjects were assessed for risk-taking style and stress level. In Phase II, the same subjects were presented with slides of traffic situations that varied in terms of risk …
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Differentiating Types of Anxiety, Depression, and Their Co-Occurrence: Regional Brain Activity and Life Stress
… tested. In addition, following from a diathesis-stress formulation proposed by Davidson (1992; Davidson & Tomarken, 1989), the influence of life stress on the relationship between brain activity and affect was systematically examined. Consistent with previous work (Heller, Nitschke, Etienne, & …
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Hopelessness and suicidal ideation in adolescents as related to life stress, self-esteem and friendship
… to be not at risk on the variables friendship, life stress, and self-esteem. The "at risk" group was determined by positive responses to questions about suicidal thoughts as well as by a high score (determined normatively) on the Hopelessness Scale (Beck, Weissman, Lester, & Trexler, 1974). The …
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EARLY LIFE STRESS EXPOSURE AND HYPOTHALAMIC PITUITARY ADRENAL AXIS: FROM MECHANISMS TO PERIPHERAL BIOMARKERS OF VULNERABILITY
… quali ad esempio l’esposizione ad eventi stressanti nel corso della vita, siano in grado di aumentare il rischio di sviluppare disturbi psichiatrici stress correlati che si caratterizzano per differenti entità ed età di insorgenza a seconda del momento e della durata dell’esposizione. …
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LONG-LASTING MOLECULAR ALTERATIONS FOLLOWING EARLY LIFE STRESS IN RATS: ROLE OF GUT MICROBIOTA AND INFLAMMATION
It is well known that stress, especially when experienced early in life, affects the brain developmental trajectories leading to an enhanced vulnerability for several mental disorders later in life. The adverse outcomes depend on the timing of the stressful experiences, and in this contest, early …
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Life Event Perception: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach To The Antecedents Of The Life Stress Response
It has been often argued that life events have an impact on our physical and psychological well-being. In general, research supports this connection between life events and general health, though some argue that simply experiencing life events has a measurable and predictable impact our health, …
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Comparison of Optimism Levels and Life Stress Levels Among NCAA Division I Athletes and Non-Athletes
… suggest that optimistic individuals approach life situations with the belief that outcomes will be favorable, and are more likely to exhibit better coping mechanisms when dealing with adversity and stress (Carver, & Scheier, 1987; Karadeaus, Karvelis, Argyropoulou, 2007). Moreover, the …
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