Stress-related illness : The Immune System
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- Created on: 01-02-15 20:02
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- Stress-related illness: The Immune System
- Kiecolt-Glaser, et al (EXAM STRESS)
- PROCEDURES:
- 75 medical students
- 2 Blood samples
- During exams (high stress)
- 1 month before exams (low stress)
- Answered a questionnaire
- AIM: Does stress in the short-term have an effect on the immune system/
- Natural experiment
- PROCEDURES:
- Kiecolt-Glaser = 2nd experiment
- AIM: Greater effects on immune functioning w/ chronic stress = wound healing
- PROCEDURES
- Comparing women without partner & married women
- FINDINGS:
- Blister wounds on married women = healed less after an argument
- Women w/out partner since last year = poorer immune system functioning
- CONCLUSION: On-going stress = bigger effect on function of immune system
- AO2: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
- Kiecolt-Glaser = 2nd experiment
- AIM: Greater effects on immune functioning w/ chronic stress = wound healing
- PROCEDURES
- Comparing women without partner & married women
- FINDINGS:
- Blister wounds on married women = healed less after an argument
- Women w/out partner since last year = poorer immune system functioning
- CONCLUSION: On-going stress = bigger effect on function of immune system
- POINT
- People react differently to functioning of immune system & stress = gender & age
- EXPLANATION
- Findings can't be generalised for all genders = react to stress
- Old people = more vulnerable = body hard to regulate itself = immune system functions harder
- Findings can't be generalised for all genders = react to stress
- Kiecolt-Glaser = 2nd experiment
- Kiecolt-Glaser, et al (EXAM STRESS)
- Kiecolt-Glaser, et al (EXAM STRESS)
- PROCEDURES:
- 75 medical students
- 2 Blood samples
- During exams (high stress)
- 1 month before exams (low stress)
- Answered a questionnaire
- AIM: Does stress in the short-term have an effect on the immune system/
- Natural experiment
- PROCEDURES:
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