Effects of life event stress and social support on the odds of a ≥2 cm breast cancer

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Kricker ◽  
Melanie Price ◽  
Phyllis Butow ◽  
Chris Goumas ◽  
Jane E. Armes ◽  
...  
1978 ◽  
Vol 166 (5) ◽  
pp. 307-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
GAVIN ANDREWS ◽  
CHRISTOPHER TENNANT ◽  
DAPHNE M. HEWSON ◽  
GEORGE E. VAILLANT

1995 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 499-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven P. Rider ◽  
Robert A. Hicks

Past research has identified a positive relationship between life-event stress and football injuries, but research in other sports has yielded more ambiguous results. It seems, then, that the relation of life stress and injury may be sport-specific and that different sports must be studied separately before such a relationship is assumed. The present investigation examined the relationships among life-event stress, coping skills, social support, and injuries of male and female high school basketball players. Contrary to the hypothesis, the number of days missed due to injury was not significantly related to life-event stress. As expected, the injury measure was negatively correlated with both the coping-skills and social-support variables, but these correlations did not reach statistical significance. Recommendations for research are discussed.


1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 636-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Tennant

Objective: The aim of this paper is to review the relationship between life-event stress, social support and coronary heart disease. Method: A literature search from 1978 to early 1999 using Medline, PsychINFO and EMBASE databases was performed. It focused largely on prospective studies. Results: Both life-event stressors and inadequate social supports assessed by a variety of indicators are risk factors for acute coronary heart disease events. Poor social support does not particularly appear to moderate the relationship of life stress to coronary heart disease but rather both appear to be independent risk factors. Conclusion: While life-event stress and poor social supports are risk factors, the exact mechanism by which they impact on heart disease is not as yet well elicited, although disturbance in mood would appear to be the most likely intervening variable.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Zagorski ◽  
Premal H. Thaker ◽  
Frank Penedo ◽  
George Slavich ◽  
Koen DeGeest ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haley Goller ◽  
Jonathan Britten Banks ◽  
Matt Ethan Meier

Klein and Boals (2001, Experiments 1 and 2) found that working memory capacity correlated negatively with perceived negative life event stress and speculated the relation may be driven by thoughts produced from these experiences. Here, we sought to replicate the association between working memory capacity and perceived negative life experience and to assess potential mediators of this association such as mind wandering propensity, rumination propensity, and the sum of negatively-valenced mind wandering reports. In this preregistered replication and extension study, with data collected from three hundred and fifty-six subjects (ns differ among analyses), we found no evidence suggesting that perceived negative life stress is associated with working memory capacity. Additionally, we found evidence consistent with the claim that negatively-valenced mind wandering is uniquely detrimental to cognitive task performance, but we highlight a potential confound that may account for this association that should be addressed in future work.


1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Parker ◽  
Gemma Gladstone ◽  
Kay Wilhelm ◽  
Ian Hickie ◽  
Philip Mitchell ◽  
...  

Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe an approach to sub-typing non-melancholic depression and to determine which raters from a variety of backgrounds provided the most valid information on study variables. Method: A sample of non-melancholic depressed patients is described. Multiple raters (i.e. patients, psychiatrists, referrers and corroborative witnesses) completed measures of the patient's trait anxiety levels, severity of recent life event stressors and personality functioning. Results: The study and representative data are reported. Congruence between several measures employed indicated that psychiatrist rating of disordered personality was superior to corroborative witness report. Assessment of anxiety traits indicated reasonable agreement between referrers and corroborative witnesses but poor agreement between those ratings and interview-elicited ratings. There were also discrepancies in quantifying “severity” of life event stress, with patients and their corroborative witnesses rating such events as more severe than either the interviewing psychiatrist or psychiatrists involved in consensus rating sessions. Importantly, the psychiatrists' capacity to quantify the relative contribution of disordered personality, anxiety and life-event stress to the particular depressive episode was supported. Conclusions: Results indicate some of the difficulties in operationalising determinants that may contribute to and sub-type the non-melancholic depressions, and demonstrate the advantages of using a range of rating strategies and raters. In this study, psychiatrist-generated judgements are clearly favoured, although the advantages of also assessing trait anxiety and life-event stress impact by self-report strategies are conceded. Some techniques for estimating the contribution of disordered personality function, anxiety and life-event stress are offered for both their research and their clinical utility.


1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 174-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean M. Williams ◽  
Phyllis Tonymon ◽  
Mark B. Andersen

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