Stress Research studies
Research studies in to: life changes, daily hassles, work place stress and the immune system
- Created by: Rachel Hedger
- Created on: 07-04-14 10:31
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- Stress Research Studies
- Life changes
- Holmes and Rahe (1967)
- Social Readjustment Rating Scale
- Rahe
- SRRS to 27000 soldiers
- Score was correlated with their illness score
- Weak correlation +0.118
- Holmes and Rahe (1967)
- Immune System
- Kiecolt Glaser
- Blood samples of 75 medical students
- 1 month before and morning of exam
- Questionnaire on loneliness and stress
- T cell level was analysed
- Significantly reduced in second sample
- Kielcolt Glaser
- 13 carers of people with Alzheimer's
- Small wounds created
- 9 days longer to hel than the control group
- Cohen
- Questionnaire to couples
- Negative interactions
- Cold virus
- More negative interactions, more likely to develop cold
- Kiecolt Glaser
- Work Place
- Johansson et al
- 14 high risk finishers in a Swedish sawmill
- Repetative, low job control, stressful
- Hormones in urine
- Higher levels o stress related illness and hormones
- 14 high risk finishers in a Swedish sawmill
- Marmot
- 3000 civil servants in Whitehall
- Questionnaire and health check
- Low job control - 4x more likely to die of heart attack
- Conrtol of workload most important
- Johansson et al
- Daily Hassles
- Kanner et al
- Hassles scale: 117 negative items covering all aspects of daily life
- Uplifts scale: 135 postive items
- 100 men and women aged 45-64 over a year
- More powerful predictor of illness
- Life changes can lead to daily hassles
- Kanner et al
- Life changes
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