blood samples of volunteer medical students (repeated measures) one month before exam, and one during exam period, found that natural killer cell activity decreased during exam period.
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Kiecolt-Glaser et al (chronic stress)
suction wounds on arms of married couples, healed slower after a conflicting discussion
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Holmes and Rahe
the srrs (life changes)
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Rahe et al
2600 american naval personnel, given srrs before tour, correlation between illness rates during tour and life change unit score
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Kanner et al
Hassles and uplifts (hsup)
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Delongis et al
found no link between between life events and illness but found link between hsup and next day ill health
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Bouteyre et al
found a positive correlation between daily hassles score and mental health issues (specifically depression) in students who had just started university
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Marmot et al
about 7300 civil servants (employed by the government) both female and male from london answered questionnaire and checked for chd, longitudinal over 5 years, Found less control at job resulted in higher likelihood of having a heart attack, not load
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Friedman and rosenman
3200 male volunteers from san fran, 39-59 free from heart disease, questionnaire and structured interview etc to find personality type, positive correlation between type As and chd higher likelihood of having heart attack
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Kobasa
people who scored higly on three c's (hardiness) were less likely to have stress related illness
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Penley
found problem solved was asscosciated with better health whereas emotion focused was with poor health
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Collins
found emotion focused techniques (eg distraction or humour) worked better for those living near a nuclear power plant that had an accident (i.e they were in fear of the uncontrollable situation, the leak of the power plant)
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Lee
found that the younger you are the less effective qa problem focused approach will be for you, e.g children who needed blood tests were less stress when given a distraction (emotion focused)
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Kahn
investigated benzodiazepines found that in 250 mpatients over eight weeks they were more effective than placebos.
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Lockwood
investigated 2000 musicians, 27% took beta blockers and recieved better reviews from critics
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Meichenbaum
developed stress inoculation therapy, found that sit was better than systematic desensitisation for dealing with snake phobia and could be applied to other phobias
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Kobasa and Maddi
developed the Hardiness Training
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Maddi et al
found company that was reducing its employees, link between hardy characteristics and resilience to stress related illness
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Marucha et al
small biopsy on roof of mouth on 11 dental students, wounds healed 40% slower during exams
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Russek
Heart disease more common in high stress doctor (gps) than low stress (dermas)
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Melchoir et al
High stress jobs were more likely to become clinically depressed
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
suction wounds on arms of married couples, healed slower after a conflicting discussion
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Kiecolt-Glaser et al (chronic stress)
Card 3
Front
the srrs (life changes)
Back
Card 4
Front
2600 american naval personnel, given srrs before tour, correlation between illness rates during tour and life change unit score
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