{"title":"The inhibited power motive, type A behavior, and patterns of cardiovascular response during the structured interview and Thematic Apperception Test.","authors":"J A Blumenthal, J D Lane, R B Williams","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936743","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Type A behavior pattern and the inhibited power motive have been implicated in the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). Since it is widely believed that enhanced cardiovascular responsivity may be one mechanism by which individuals develop CHD, the present study examined the relationship of Type A behavior and the inhibited power motive to different patterns of cardiovascular response during two behavioral tasks. Forty-one (24 Type A's, 17 Type B's) male undergraduates underwent the Type A structured interview (SI) and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) while a broad range of cardiovascular functions were simultaneously recorded. Different patterns of cardiovascular response were observed during the SI and TAT, and Type A's showed a greater tendency than Type B's to exhibit increased heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), and forearm blood flow (FBF) during the SI and the preparatory phase (but not the story-telling phase) of the TAT. The inhibited power motive was not related to enhanced cardiovascular responsivity during the SI or TAT. The implications of these findings for the development of CHD are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 2","pages":"82-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936743","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14963517","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}
E M Gutterman, A A Ehrhardt, J S Markowitz, B G Link
{"title":"Vulnerability to stress among women with in utero diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposed daughters.","authors":"E M Gutterman, A A Ehrhardt, J S Markowitz, B G Link","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936746","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) was initially linked to vaginal-cervical cancer and subsequently to reproductive difficulties. These unanticipated and ongoing health risks to female offspring may constitute a chronic source of stress for DES mothers. We interviewed 60 mothers of exposed daughters and 30 acquaintance controls. Two hypotheses were tested in regard to DES mothers: DES discovery and its aftermath have a direct, long-term, negative effect on psychological health and the DES experience intensifies the negative psychological effects of other adverse life circumstances. To operationalize psychological health, we measured symptoms of \"demoralization\" and positive health practices--the latter as a behavioral indicator of mastery and personal control. We also measured adversities that may mediate the threat posed by DES, including stressful events, medical problems, and chronic burdens. We found DES history to be associated with poorer psychological health only when mothers encountered other losses and threats to themselves and their families. We concluded that DES mothers may manifest increased vulnerability to subsequent stresses in their lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 3","pages":"103-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936746","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14968625","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":"Stress, control beliefs, and psychological distress: the problem of response bias.","authors":"N Krause","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936733","url":null,"abstract":"Research on the buffering effects of locus of control beliefs in the relationship between stressful life events and psychological distress has produced inconclusive findings. The purpose of this study is to examine whether social desirability response set bias may be at least partially responsible for these contradictory results. Analysis of data from a community survey of married women suggests that social desirability can attenuate the interaction effect between stress and control beliefs. It is recommended that researchers include controls for this form of nonrandom measurement error in future studies.","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 1","pages":"11-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936733","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14958710","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":"Correlates of psychosomatic stress symptoms among farm women: a research note on farm and family functioning.","authors":"A D Berkowitz, H W Perkins","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936742","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relationship between self-reported psychosomatic stress symptoms and dimensions of family and farm functioning were examined in a sample of New York State dairy farm wives (N = 126). The farm women completed a questionnaire assessing home and farm task loads, farm complexity, intrapersonal role conflict, interpersonal role conflict, husband support, and marital satisfaction. The psychosomatic stress symptoms included nervousness, restlessness, insomnia, shortness-of-breath, and fainting. In general, stress symptoms showed little relationship to task loads, farm complexity, and intrapersonal role conflict. Much stronger relationships were found for interpersonal role conflict, husband support, and marital satisfaction. Thus, these findings point to the greater importance of family relationships in preventing or buffering stress in comparison with simple role-related task expectations of farm systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 2","pages":"76-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936742","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14963516","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":"The life events stress-performance linkage: an exploratory study.","authors":"K P De Meuse","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936747","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For a long time, the relationship between life events, psychological adjustment, and illness has been a subject of much concern in the medical literature. Very recently, several management theorists have proposed a life events stress-performance linkage. In the present study, such a linkage was tested in a classroom setting. One hundred fifty-nine university students were asked to estimate the degree of readjustment required for each of 43 life events and, subsequently, to identify events that they had experienced during the past year. Weighted and unweighted life event stress scores were later correlated with six indices of classroom performance. As hypothesized, measures of stress collected early in the semester were inversely related to future performance. The predictive ability of the stress scores was not enhanced by using readjustment values to weight life events experienced.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 3","pages":"111-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936747","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14963518","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":"Stress reactivity in alexithymia: decoupling of physiological and cognitive responses.","authors":"A S Papciak, M Feuerstein, J A Spiegel","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936750","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alexithymia is described as the lack of awareness of the basis of emotion. Descriptions of alexithymia have primarily been based upon clinical observation with no laboratory validation of the construct. A proposed aspect of alexithymia is an inability to accurately identify emotional stimuli, with a hypothesized decoupling of peripheral physiological activity and accurate report of feeling state. The present study represents an initial attempt to determine whether such a decoupling of feeling state and physiology in response to stress exists in alexithymics. Males (18-25 years) screened for alexithymia using the Schalling-Sifneos Personality Scale (SSPS) were used in subjects (n = 15) along with age-matched nonalexithymic controls (n = 15). All subjects were asymptomatic. Each was individually exposed to a stress quiz while heart rate, frontal EMG, and blood pressure were monitored. The Profile of Mood States (POMS) was administered at four intervals (adaptation, prestress quiz, poststress quiz, and recovery). Results indicated that both the alexithymic and nonalexithymic groups displayed an increased heart rate and systolic and diastolic blood pressure response to the stressor. Alexithymics had higher resting heart rate levels throughout the experiment in contrast to controls. No differences in recovery from stress were observed between the two groups. EMG appeared stable across periods. Analyses of mood data revealed a significant increase in tension following the stress quiz in the nonalexithymic group, while the alexithymics demonstrated an increase in tension in anticipation of the stressor.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 3","pages":"135-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936750","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14963521","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 psychometric study of stress and coping during the International Biomedical Expedition to the Antarctic (IBEA).","authors":"I A McCormick, A J Taylor, J Rivolier, G Cazes","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936752","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A psychometric study was made of stress and coping during the course of the International Biomedical Expedition to Antarctica (IBEA). The stressors were specified by observation, as were the group's behavioral reactions to them, but they produced no significant differences on scales of symptomatology. The repressor/sensitization defensive style of coping was then examined, and although there were grounds for associating repressor tendencies with the low self-reporting of stress, the group sizes were too small to confirm the suggestion statistically. But the question needs now to be taken further, as also does that of laboratory stressors.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"11 4","pages":"150-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1985.9936752","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14963522","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":"Human reactions to the Nazi concentration camps: a summing up.","authors":"P Schmolling","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934964","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the passing of time, it becomes increasingly unlikely that major studies of concentration camp survivors will appear. Nearly forty years have gone by since the camps were liberated. Most survivors have died, and their children are approaching middle age. This paper provides a brief summary of the available data. Beginning with an account of the events leading to the Holocaust, it goes on to summarize the major types of psychological defenses employed by the prisoners, and also describes the group or social activity in the camps. The long lasting psychological, psychiatric, and medical consequences of internment are then reviewed. The paper concludes with a discussion of studies of the children of survivors.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 3","pages":"108-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934964","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17453984","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":"Imminent myocardial infarction: a psychological study.","authors":"A Appels, P Mulder","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934966","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Unstable angina pectoris and feelings of fatigue and general malaise are often mentioned as premonitory symptoms of myocardial infarction. From a psychological point of view these feelings of fatigue and malaise reflect a syndrome of vital exhaustion and depression (VED). A questionnaire which measures this syndrome was given to 3,571 males who participated in a voluntary health check up. It was found that the prevalence of \"imminent myocardial infarction,\" defined as unstable angina pectoris plus electrocardiographic signs of ischaemia, was more than four times higher among exhausted and depressive persons, than among persons not so affected.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 3","pages":"129-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934966","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17575908","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":"Behavioral and biochemical effects of job loss and unemployment stress.","authors":"R Fleming, A Baum, D Reddy, R J Gatchel","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934954","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research on the effects of unemployment has focused upon both anticipation of job loss and long-term unemployment, typically using self-report and some biochemical measures of response to unemployment stress. The present study was concerned with behavioral and biochemical responses to unemployment. It was also designed to examine a somewhat different time course of unemployment than has been used in previous work. Results indicated that stress accompanies unemployment; looking at people who had been unemployed for up to four months, those who had been unemployed for greater lengths of time performed more poorly on a behavioral task and exhibited higher levels of urinary norepinephrine and epinephrine than did persons unemployed for shorter time periods or subjects who were employed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 1","pages":"12-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934954","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17528048","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}