Stress Flashcards
Seyle
(1936) rats body’s attempt to adapt to a stressor
… father of stress
Mason
(1971) replicates Selye using monkeys
…stress outcomes depends on stressor
Lazarus
(1999) proposed cognitive appraisal
Speismann
(1964) heart rate vs context of medical procedure film
Taylor et al
(2000) most adaptive stress response in females is tend and befriend - NOT fight or flight
Kiecolt-Glaser et al
(1984) exam stress and the immune system
Firdaus Dharbar
(2008) with rats
Evans et al
(1994) SigA efficiency decreases with stress
Kiecolt-Glaser
(1991) longitudinal study of Alzheimer carers vs non carers
- stress and illness overtime
Perira et al
(2005)
- high chronic stress in HIV positive patients
- cancer developed faster in year of highly stressed
Kissane
correlation to cancer is ‘weak and difficult to establish’
Lampen et al
(2008) acute stress and CVD
- myocardial infarction during World Cup (Germany)
- retrospective research
Yusuf et al
(2004) chronic stress and CVD
- strong link to MI
- 52 studies determine factors to CVD like smoking
Orth-Gomer et al
(2000) marital stress tripled risk of heart attack in women with CVD (chronic)
Holmes and Rahe
(1967) developed Social Readjustment Rating Scale
- large sample rated 43 life events
- created life change units which are then totalled when completing
Rahe et al
(1970) US Navy, illness and life change
- self report on illness and life change
- positive correlation
Lietzen et al
(2011) stressful life events is a risk factor for asthma
Bryne and White
(1980) interpretation of LCU needed- individual differeneces
Turner and Wheaton
(1995) ‘reliability of life event checklist is expected to be low’