Health Psychology : a Textbook

DOES STRESS CAUSE ILLNESS? One of the reasons why stress has been studied so consistently is because of its potential effect on ...

The chronic process The most commonly held view of the link between stress and illness suggests that stress leads to disease due ...

(e.g. Muller et al. 1994, 1985; Moller et al. 1999). They are acute events and involve a sudden rupture and thrombogenesis. John ...

modified by smoking. In a more naturalistic study, smokers were asked to attend a stressful social situation and were instructed ...

effect model, which predicts that stress changes food intake generally; and (2) the indi- vidual difference model, which predict ...

STRESS AND CHANGES IN PHYSIOLOGY The physiological consequences of stress and their effect on health have been studied extensive ...

Interaction between the behavioural and physiological pathways Stress can therefore influence health and illness by changing beh ...

Frederickson et al. 1991, 2000). However, these studies used a cross sectional design which raises the problem of causality. Som ...

Stress has therefore been linked to a range of illnesses and research highlight the role of both a behavioural and physiological ...

and showed that changes in the immune system brought about by an immuno- suppressive drug could be paired with a sweet taste. T ...

sclerosis/motor neurone disease. The study used a prospective design with 38 consecu- tive patients completing measures of mood ...

emotions and thoughts.. .’. The control group is asked to write about more superficial topics such as how they spend their time. ...

However, a meta analysis of writing studies by Smyth (1998) indicated that men may benefit more from writing than women and thos ...

found following objective rather than subjectively rated stressful events and that immune response varied according to the durat ...

et al. 1981; Karasek and Theorell 1990). According to the model, there are two aspects of job strain: job demands, which reflect ...

(Glenn and Weaver 1981). These links between relationship status and quality have been understood using a range of literatures i ...

been studied with a focus on type A behaviour and personality and the role of hostility (see Chapter 15 for details in the conte ...

and their environment. Likewise, coping is also seen as a similar interaction between the person and the stressor. Further, in t ...

to a longer-term stressor such as marital conflict. Some researchers have also explored repressive coping (Myers 2000) and emoti ...

Controllability: People tend to use problem focused coping if they believe that the problem itself can be changed. In contrast t ...