Vulnerability-Stress Models

Identifying key features of early stressful experiences that produce stress vulnerability and resilience in primates.

This article examines the complex role of early stressful experiences in producing both vulnerability and resilience to later stress-related psychopathology in a variety of primate models of human development. Two types of models are reviewed: Parental Separation Models (e.g., isolate-rearing, peer-rearing, parental separations, and stress inoculation) and Maternal Behavior Models (e.g., foragi...

Resilience, coping strategies, and social support: important predictors of students’ vulnerability to stress

Stress is a type of person-environment relationship which is appraised by the individual as stressful or beyond one’s own resources and, as a results, threatens the individual’s wellbeing and welfare. The aim of the present study was to investigate the variables of resilience, coping strategies, and social support as predictors of vulnerability to stress among students. The participants consist...

Does the Vulnerability Paradox in PTSD Apply to Women and Men? An Exploratory Study.

Recent research suggests that greater country vulnerability is associated with a decreased, rather than increased, risk of mental health problems. Because societal parameters may have gender-specific implications, our objective was to explore whether the "vulnerability paradox" equally applies to women and men. Lifetime posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence data for women and men were...

Assessing the groundwater vulnerability to pollution using DRASTIC and SINTACS models, case study: Evan Plain, south west of Iran

Local critical stress correlates better than global maximum stress with plaque morphological features linked to atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability: an in vivo multi-patient study

BACKGROUND It is believed that mechanical stresses play an important role in atherosclerotic plaque rupture process and may be used for better plaque vulnerability assessment and rupture risk predictions. Image-based plaque models have been introduced in recent years to perform mechanical stress analysis and identify critical stress indicators which may be linked to rupture risk. However, large...