Diatheses Vulnerability factors that increase the stressfulness and negative consequences of life events. Difficulties Ongoing stressful situations that persist for at least 3 months. Independence The degree to which a person’s behavior or characteristics might have brought about a stressful life event. Matching events Acute major negative events that arise from or are thematically related to o...

With an object to study neurosis through stressful life events, personality dimension, family interactional patterns and other sociological variables, certain hypotheses are tested in two populations, namely 60 neurotics and 60 normals, matched at individual level for age, sex, and education. This paper is divided into two parts. In this part the main observations are that neurotic patients exp...

BACKGROUND Previous findings suggest that stressful life events have a causal relationship with depressive symptoms. However, to date little is known concerning the contribution of the number and severity of recent stressful life events on the prevalence of depressive symptoms among university students. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of depressive symptoms and its assoc...

Psychosocial stress is associated with chronic disease. We evaluated whether in the general population the number of stressful life events is associated with risk of mortality and whether this association is mediated by behavioral factors and morbidities. We conducted this study in the Hoorn cohort; a population-based cohort study among older men and women. Our main variable of interest was the...

this paper reports the preliminary findings of a large scale study on stressful life events, conducted in isfahan city-in center of iran. the purpose of this study was to explore the positive and negative stressful events experienced by some of the inhabitants of this city over the past 5 years. 422 randomly selected individuals belonging to 100 families were interviewed. the interview schedule...

BACKGROUND The possibility of a causal influence of emotional stress, especially of stressful life events, on the course of various skin diseases has long been postulated. Previous reports addressing its influence on skin psoriasis and chronic urticaria have been mainly anecdotal. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the stressful events of life within 1 year preceding onset or exa...

BACKGROUND Very few analytical studies are available on any association between stressful life events (SLE) and colorectal cancer (CRC), at least in Iran. The aim of this case control study was to determine the association between stressful life events (SLE) and colorectal cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted in four hospital colonoscopy units in Tabriz city of Iran includin...