Sentences with phrase «consistently high level of stress»

This dynamic creates a consistently high level of stress with which it can be difficult to cope.

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High levels of stress have been consistently associated with a wide variety of negative health behaviors, including smoking, drinking, drug use and physical inactivity.

When women experience acute and chronic life stressors during pregnancy, maternal mental health issues can arise.33 Yet differences in maternal mental health are also not enough to explain the gap in birth outcomes, as African American women have not consistently reported higher levels of stress during pregnancy.34 However, women of color are not typically aware of mental health symptoms experienced during pregnancy and in the postpartum period.35 This is due to a lack of knowledge regarding the signs and symptoms associated with mental health challenges.

Past research relying on either cross-sectional or main effect models makes the assumption that low levels of perceived control will uniformly and consistently predict higher levels of depressive symptoms without taking into account contextual and environmental factors such as stress (see Alloy et al. 1988).