{"title":"Catecholamine response of children in a naturally occurring stressor situation.","authors":"S W Elwood, H B Ferguson, J Thakar","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1986.9936782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1986.9936782","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study examined the response of children to a stressor condition. Urine samples were collected from 38 children between ages 10 and 12 preceding a class presentation and again one week later, when no unusual event was occurring. Cognitive tasks and a state anxiety inventory were administered on both occasions. Personality and stressor situation inventories (hypothesized antecedent factors) were completed. Bidirectional changes in catecholamine levels were demonstrated (adrenalin: 55% of the children showed an increase, 29% a decrease; noradrenalin: 47% increase, 40% decrease; 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenethylene glycol: 40% increase, 42% decrease). Distinct differences in gender distribution and cognitive performance were demonstrated for the increase and decrease subgroups. It was suggested that both increases and decreases in catecholamine levels represent responses to the stressor situation, with an increase representing an adaptive response and a decrease representing a less adaptive response.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"12 4","pages":"154-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1986.9936782","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14681240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life events assessment of depressed patients: a comparison of self-report and interview formats.","authors":"M Zimmerman, B Pfohl, D Stangl","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1986.9936761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1986.9936761","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Both self-report questionnaires and semi-structured interviews have been employed in past research on the association between life events and psychiatric disorder. We examined the comparability of these two approaches by giving both a self-report life events scale and semi-structured life events interview to 38 depressed patients. About 40% of the items noted on the interview were missed when using the questionnaire. Approximately 15% of the items noted on the questionnaire were errors since the events did not meet the definition or time criteria specified in the questionnaire. Twenty percent of the items noted on the questionnaire were not noted on the interview and may represent underinclusiveness on the part of the interview. The implications of these differences were examined by comparing the association between a variety of demographic and clinical variables and life events under each methodology. There were no significant differences between the two methods except when examining the association between life events and other subjective self-report measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"12 1","pages":"13-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1986.9936761","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14681375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Post-shooting stress reactions among police officers.","authors":"R Loo","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1986.9936763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1986.9936763","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Post-shooting stress reactions were studied in a large police force to develop a psychological services policy and procedures in support of members of the force. Two empirical studies were conducted using a mail survey of a total of 66 members involved in shootings plus clinical interviews of a sample of these members. The results showed that members experienced most stress reactions within three days of the shooting. The average time for feeling that they were back to normal working, social, and family life was 20 weeks. There was strong support for various proposed psychological services and actions to support members involved in shootings. Recommendations were made concerning the conduct of psychological debriefings, counselling and brief therapy, the use of peer counsellors, services for affected police families, and stress training in the force.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"12 1","pages":"27-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1986.9936763","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14681377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treating Type A Behavior and Your Heart, by Meyer Friedman, MD, and Diane Ulmer, RN, MS. New York, Alfred A. Knopf","authors":"J. M. Rhoads","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936758","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 1","pages":"190-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936758","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59038908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychological preparation as a method of reducing the stress of surgery.","authors":"L. Wallace","doi":"10.1097/00006254-198508000-00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00006254-198508000-00020","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of the preparation of adult patients for surgery are reviewed. While many show that preparation reduces stress, the studies are criticized for methodological and conceptual inadequacies. In particular, studies often fail to measure a range of stress responses, and also fail to provide measures over a sufficient time span to fully assess the effect of preparation on stress responses which are known to have differing rates of responsiveness. The experimental study was specifically designed to overcome these problems. Eighty patients undergoing a minor gynecological operation (laparoscopy for sterilization or infertility investigation) were allocated to one of three groups: routine care only (Control 1); routine care plus a minimally informative preparatory booklet (Control 2); or routine care plus a maximally informative preparatory booklet (Experimental group). Patients in the special preparation condition showed lower stress responses on measures of preoperative anxiety. At both one- and six-week follow ups they showed reduced state anxiety and elevated postdischarge vigor scores. They also showed less pain after surgery and recovered faster in hospital and in the first six days after going home. They returned to normal activities faster than patients in the two control groups. There were no differences on measures of postoperative symptoms, medication use, or reported time to return to normal health. The results are discussed in terms of previous studies of psychological preparation, and current concepts of stress. Suggestions for the design of preparatory interventions are made which match the type and timing of the intervention to the target stress response.","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 2 1","pages":"62-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/00006254-198508000-00020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61949280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introspectiveness and adolescent symptom reporting.","authors":"S Hansell, D Mechanic","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936755","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new measure of introspectiveness--the tendency to devote diffuse attention to thoughts and feelings about the self--was used to investigate adolescent symptom reporting. Introspectiveness was correlated with psychological distress (r = .40) and with physical symptoms (r = .27) in a random sample of college freshmen, and remained the strongest correlate of distress and symptoms when controlling for a variety of other measures. Women, Jews, and certain Hispanic groups were higher on introspectiveness than other students. An unanticipated, but possibly significant, result was that economic discontinuities and discontinuities involving significant others had markedly different relationships with health. Strong associations between perceptions of parental characteristics, adolescent introspectiveness, and health suggested the importance of socialization processes for understanding distress and symptoms. Finally, measures of emotional sensitivity and time spent alone were associated with introspectiveness and symptom reporting. Taken together, these findings suggest the importance of introspectiveness and its correlates for understanding the processes leading to adolescent symptom reporting.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 4","pages":"165-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936755","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14962731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multi-modal questionnaire for stress.","authors":"R C Lefebvre, S L Sandford","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936741","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper presents data regarding the Strain Questionnaire (SQ), a 48-item scale designed to measure self-report levels of behavioral, cognitive, and physical stress complaints. A heterogeneous sample of 412 adults completed the SQ, and correlational, reliability, factor analytic and validity data are reported. Results suggest that the items reflect a wide range of content which show high internal consistency on each of the three subscales and the total SQ. Test-retest reliability demonstrated satisfactory temporal stability of the scales. Factor analysis of the SQ produced eleven orthogonal factors. The most salient factor was \"cognitive/behavioral strain\" which highlights the necessity for including these variables in self-report surveys of stress. Future research needs are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 2","pages":"69-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936741","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14958718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health status as a mediating factor in the life change-academic performance relationship.","authors":"T F Garrity, J B Ries","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936748","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study was designed to determine whether illness during the academic year, when gender and academic readiness are controlled, is the variable accounting for the demonstrated relationship between life change index and subsequent academic performance. A weak though significant inverse association was found between life change and grades; this association persisted even after statistical adjustment for gender, academic readiness, and illness experience. There was no evidence that illness experience mediated the life change-performance relationship. The association was not subject to a threshold effect according to level of life change.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 3","pages":"118-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936748","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14963519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Defayolle, C Boutelier, C Bachelard, J Rivolier, A J Taylor
{"title":"The stability of psychometric performance during the International Biomedical Expedition to the Antarctic (IBEA).","authors":"M Defayolle, C Boutelier, C Bachelard, J Rivolier, A J Taylor","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936753","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A selection of tests designed to measure certain cognitive and psychomotor functions was administered to 11 subjects on an Antarctic expedition, some of whom had been preacclimatized with cold baths. No evidence was found of deterioration due to the Antarctic climate, or to the lack of preacclimatization. It was concluded that the motivation of the subjects was the crucial factor in maintaining their performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 4","pages":"157-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936753","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14963523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporal relationship between life events and two illness measures: a cross-lagged panel analysis.","authors":"M H Antoni","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936734","url":null,"abstract":"Stressful life events were correlated with two separate illness measures among naval submarine school students. The two illness measures were self-reported health symptoms, and illnesses recorded in the subjects' medical files. Life events, self-reported symptoms, and medical record illnesses were separated into two time blocks and subjected to a cross-lagged panel analysis in order to assess the temporal relationships among them. A significant positive relationship was shown between negative life events experienced 7-12 months prior to testing and medical record illnesses experienced 0-6 months prior to testing. A comparable relationship was not found for negative events and self-reported symptoms. The results support the view that negative life events increase susceptibility to actual illness onset. They also question the accuracy of self-report measures of illness.","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 1","pages":"21-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936734","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14958711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}