"Psychosocial stress" refers to the emotional and mental strain caused by difficult experiences or challenges in our lives, such as problems at work, in relationships, or financial issues. It combines both psychological (related to our thoughts and emotions) and social (related to our interactions with others) aspects of stress.
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According to the study, dog ownership can help alleviate
psychosocial stress factors (such as social isolation), depression and loneliness.
Scientists have long known that chronic exposure to
psychosocial stress early in life can lead to an increased vulnerability later in life to diseases linked to immune dysfunction and chronic inflammation.
Typical triggering events can be the death of a spouse or other loved one, combat trauma, financial disaster, or any other major event
involving psychosocial stress.
The frequencies and percentages of couple - related and
psychosocial stress variables in the ART and control group women and men are given in Table I.
The Questionnaire on Stress in Cancer Patients revised version QSC - R23 is a disease - specific questionnaire for the assessment
of psychosocial stress in cancer patients.
Scientists from the University of Granada and the School for Special Education San Rafael have proven that blue lighting hastens relaxation after acute
psychosocial stress in comparison with conventional white lighting.
Instead, the growing consensus is that the health risks of low status are due in part to the
chronic psychosocial stress of the rat race itself, and of perceived social subordination, whether by other individuals or by institutions.
The ages of the pregnant young women (14 to 19 years) put them at high risk
for psychosocial stress and resulting inflammation.
Potential contribution of work -
related psychosocial stress to the development of cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes: a brief review
Thus, the present study aimed at investigating the influence of
psychosocial stress on the recognition of facial emotional expressions of different valance.
Subtitle: Reduction of physiological reactivity to
psychosocial stress by Taiji practice — who benefits the most?
The findings underscore the importance of intervening early to address behavior issues in children to
prevent psychosocial stress and shortening of telomeres.
Mouse psychosocial stress reduces motivation and cognitive function in operant reward tests: A model for reward pathology with effects of agomelatine.
Importantly, women who primarily suffer
from psychosocial stress and not metabolic distress recover from hypothalamic amenorrhea without changing weight or leptin levels.
Children who remained in institutional care exhibited significantly blunted SNS and HPA axis responses to
psychosocial stress compared with children randomized to foster care, whose stress responses approximated those of typically developing children.
The study investigates whether among some adolescents with asthma,
psychosocial stress induces a shift in immunity that supports inflammatory processes in the lungs, and whether the degree of immune change is associated with the degree of stress experienced by the subject.
Cortisol responses to
psychosocial stress predict depression trajectories: Social — evaluative threat and prior depressive episodes as moderators
However, one of the major proposed mechanisms to account for the relationship between
prenatal psychosocial stress and the offspring's susceptibility to infections is the secretion of cortisol, which is regulated by the maternal HPA axis and the placenta [14,20].
Perceived early - life maternal care and the cortisol response to repeated psychosocial stress
We replicated the analyses about the role of couple - related (length of partnership and number of earlier partnerships) and
psychosocial stress factors in first - time parents.
Specifically, the present study investigated whether exposure to
acute psychosocial stress influences general emotion recognition, and further investigated whether this enhancement pattern is unified across emotions, or differentiated to facial expressions associated with potential threat signals to the individual.
«It is telling that even in modern large - scale societies the status comparisons most consequential
for psychosocial stress are typically among individuals who are in close geographic proximity or who occupy the same social network rather than between individuals at opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum.
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of a brief new questionnaire for assessing sources of work -
related psychosocial stress.
The role
of psychosocial stress in the onset and progression of bipolar disorder and its comorbidities: The need for earlier and alternative modes of therapeutic intervention
Studies have shown that cadets in combat training supplementing with L - Tyrosine had reduced negative effects from physical and
psychosocial stress on mental performance.
Gender differences in automatic thoughts and cortisol and alpha - amylase responses to acute
psychosocial stress in patients with obsessive - compulsive personality disorder.
Psychosocial stress, exposure to air pollution including truck traffic, sleep disruption and changes to socioeconomic status are all biologically plausible pathways for unconventional natural gas development to affect health.
The breastfeeding research lists challenges to early and successful breastfeeding as unscheduled cesarean birth,
psychosocial stress, and pain related to labor and birth.
Values were derived from regressing T on daily paternal caregiving, controlling for time of saliva collection, usual wake time (AM), sleep quality,
psychosocial stress, and number of children, with fathers who reported no involvement in childcare as the comparison group.