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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"chronic stressors"”.
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Chronic Stressors, Obesity Pathogenesis, and the Moderating Effect of Internalized Weight Stigma; a Quantitative, Illinois Study
… This study examined the relationships among chronic stressors (including childhood adversity, perceived stress, and internalized weight stigma), resilience factors (including subjective happiness and positive childhood experiences), and BMI/obesity diagnosis for adult participants in …
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Comparative Analysis of Chronic Versus Acute Stressors and Their Influence on Distress Consequences at Work
… distress consequences in employees. Chronic stressors have been well researched, in particular, role conflict, role ambiguity, and work overload have been extensively studied. A meta-analysis was conducted in order to aggregate past research to gain a better understanding of the …
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The Associations of Chronic Stress, Social Support, Health Behaviors and Metabolic Syndrome among Hispanic Women
<p><strong>The Associations of Chronic Stress, Social Support, Health Behaviors and Metabolic Syndrome Among Hispanic Women</strong></p> <p><strong></strong><strong>Background: </strong>Metabolic syndrome (MetS) prevalence is 25% among Mexican American women 30 – 49 years of age, compared to 22% …
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How do childhood ADHD and stress relate to adult wellbeing and educational attainment? A data science investigation using the 1970 British Cohort Study
… were operationalised as stressful life events, chronic stressors, self-esteem, and locus of control. The following questions were examined : 1) What robust measures of DSM-5 ADHD can be retrospectively measured and validated? 2) What is the relationship between childhood ADHD and stress? 3) What …
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Understanding Climate Change through a Community Definition of Resilience: Qualitative Analysis of Interviews and Implications for Practice
… communities experience climate change through chronic stressors, mainly through heat, high utility bills, and flooding. They connect climate resilience to other stressors in their lives like displacement, structural racism, and trauma, and they see strong community ties as a key piece of …
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The Role Of Chronic Stress In Age Gradients Of Preterm Birth Among Racial/ethnic Groups
Recently, chronic stress has drawn great attention as an underlying mechanism of preterm birth (PTB) among racial/ethnic minority women. However, the association between chronic stress and PTB is not clearly understood. In fact, existing chronic stress models do not agree on definitions and …
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Inside Interracial Marriages: Accounts of Black-White Couples
… of this qualitative study was to investigate the chronic daily concerns that eight self-identified Black-White interracial couples described as stressful and to identify the coping strategies that they utilized to reduce feelings of distress. Another goal of this study was to discover the actions …
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Cardiovascular reactivity in African American male college students
… to African American males' responses to such chronic stressors as racism. The present study set forth to study empirically the cognitive and physiological responsivity of young African American males to racially noxious stimuli. Given that African American males tend to have higher resting …
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The LOTUS Project: A Resilience Program for Dominican University of California Occupational Therapy Graduate Students
… occupational therapy practitioners experience chronic stress, adversity, and are at risk for burnout (de Witt, Monareng, Abraham, Koor, & Saber, 2019). Building a resilience practice early in the OT career has the potential to assist students in overcoming adversity from chronic stressors that …
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Examining Positive Distraction as a Coping Strategy for Chronic Stress
… been relatively understudied in the context of chronic stressors. This dissertation represents one of the first attempts to characterize the ecological implications and underlying mechanisms of positive distraction use. In one set of studies, I examined the real-world implications of using …
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Examining the Role of Social Resources in Diabetes Control among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
… but little has been done to examine the role of chronic stress on this relationship. Chronic stress is important to diabetes control because stress can impair an individual’s ability to perform diabetes self-management behaviors. The purpose of this research was to fully identify: 1.) predictors …
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Stress and Coping Experiences of Women in Transition: From Welfare to Work
… in the lives of women who are already facing the chronic stressors associated with single parenting and poverty. The current study assessed the levels of distress, factors contributing to distress, and coping resources utilized among a sample of 60 mothers who were making the transition from …
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Psychological Stress and High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Levels in Overweight and Obese Men
… body fat but showed no linear relationship of chronic stress of daily life to hs-CRP levels.</p> <p><strong>Importance to Preventive Care.</strong> Although this study did not find an association between chronic stress and hs-CRP, previous research indicates that acute stressors do play a role …
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Swine applied ethology methods for a model of mild traumatic brain injury
Stressors and stress responses are part of everyday life, for both humans and animals. Organisms evolved well-developed mechanisms to cope with most stressors, and to recover from stress responses. Nevertheless, severe acute stressors and chronic stressors lead to health problems. Traumatic brain …
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EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF MINORITY STRESS AND RESILIENCE ON SEXUAL MINORITY VETERANS’ HEALTHCARE UTILIZATION
… sexual minority individuals experience unique chronic stressors that affect their well-being and fuel health disparities, is used to conceptualize these differences. Results from several studies have identified that fears or experiences of anticipated stigma and experiences of discrimination …
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The impact of combined maternal alcohol and tobacco use on low birth weight in singleton pregnancies : a population based study in the US, 2003
… socioeconomic disadvantage and exposure to chronic stressors of the urban environment. Methods: Design: A population-based study of singleton births born to US -born Black and White women delivered in the USA in 2003. Sample: The natality files produced by the National Center for Health …
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Stress Proliferation and Disability over the Life Course
… by conceptualizing hearing impairment as a chronic stressor that impacts mental health and examining the role of social support in this relationship. Using fixed-effects regression models applied to three waves of HRS data (2006, 2010, 2014), I found that worse self-rated hearing is …