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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"stressful life events"”.
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Stressful life events and deliberate self-harm: Exploring the specificity of stressful life events and emotion regulation facets
… mediated the relationship between different stressful life events and deliberate self-harm. It examined both the cumulative and specific effects of stressful life events. Methods: A quantitative correlational survey method was adopted using several questionnaires to explore the relationship …
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Relations between Personality and Stressful Life Events
… or personality-disordered: PD) traits and stressful life events: SLE) among young adults. Yet, the issue of how personality dispositions may be related to SLEs among middle age and older adults remains unresolved. In this prospective study, both self- and informant-report data were …
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Stressful life events, depression, and the effects of perceived social support
… study was to explore the relationship between stressful life events, depression and the effects of perceived social support. The researcher expected to find a positive correlation with higher stressful life events ratings predicting greater depressive mood. Also, the researcher hypothesized …
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Stressful Life Events and Coping Methods in Mental-Illness and Wellness Behaviors
… was done to examine the relationship between stressful life events and mental-illness and wellness behaviors, and the coping methods used by individuals exhibiting each behavior.</p> <p>Data collection included the use of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale and a coping scale administered to …
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Coping strategies, psychopathological symptoms, and posttraumatic growth following trauma and stressful life events
… current study examined the predictive value of stressful life experiences and coping strategies on posttraumatic growth and psychopathological symptoms. Using the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire (TLEQ), the Brief COPE, the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), and the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory …
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The relationship between stressful life events and the development and maintenance of stuttering
… have been conducted examining the impact of stressful life events on the course of one’s stuttering. However, research reveals that stressful life events (i.e., divorce, death, or new move) increase the likelihood of the onset of stuttering (Guitar, 2006). This study investigated whether …
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Relationships among family cohesion, family adaptability, potentially stressful life events and symptoms of stress
… symptoms, while taking number of potential stressful life events into account. The results for the cohesion sub-scale supported using it as a linear measure. The results for the adaptability sub-scale were inconclusive. The results also demonstrated that life events and cohesion were …
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Impact of the Serotonin-Transporter-Polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and Stressful Life Events on the Stress Response in Humans
… 5-HTTLPR seems to impact on the role of stressful life events (SLEs) in the development of depression. An elevated risk of depression and suicidal behaviors has been found in carriers of at least one low expressing S allele who had experienced SLEs, suggesting a gene x environment …
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The impact of stressful life events on antiretroviral treatment adherence and viral load amongst adults in Gugulethu, Cape Town
… which may be compounded by the experience of stressful life events (SLE) with adverse effects on their ART adherence and therefore affecting viral suppression. The highest concentration of people living with HIV (PLWH) is in low-and-middle income countries (LMIC) which are challenged with high …
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What Impacts Life Satisfaction Of Aging Adults Following Stressful Life Events?: An Examination Of The Buffering Effect Of Personal Resources
… shown that elders experience changes in their life satisfaction following stressful life events. There is an abundance of literature supporting the predictive nature of not only stressful life events on life satisfaction, but social support, autonomy, and financial security. What the literature …
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Relationships between Adolescent Stress, Depressive Symptoms, Social Support, Coping and Sexual Risk Behavior in Young Adulthood
… longitudinal associations among adolescent stressful life events, depressive symptoms, coping skills, social support, and young adult sexual risk behaviors and sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States. Design A total of 18,924 participants aged from 12 to 18 at baseline were …
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An examination of homelessness from a stress perspective.
… have not described how persons dealt with the stressful experience of being homeless. This study examined the adequacy of a transient stress model, developed by the integration of Moos and Schaefer's (1993) Integrated Framework of Stress and Coping and Dohrenwend's (1978) Social Stress Model, …
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Intrinsic Religious Orientation and Mental Health in Later Life
… religion as a coping resource in later life. The major proposition of the study was that intrinsic religious orientation is positively associated with mental health in late life. A forty three-item questionnaire was distributed to residents of four independent retirement communities …
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The Relationship Between Level of Empathy and Stress Contagion
… that social networks expose an individual to the stressful life events of others. Studies have shown that the stressful life events of others are positively related to negative affect. It has been theorized by several researchers that relationships between, for example, stressful life events of …
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