3 I " Approximately 25% of adolescents will experience at least one significant stressor, including the death of a loved one or witnessing a traumatic event. " Interventions for adolescents are often aimed at helping them deal constructively with the stressors in their daily lives. Achieving positive outcomes depends on understanding the actual stressors faced by adolescents, the ways they make...

BACKGROUND The experience of race-related stressors is associated with physiological stress responses. However, much is unknown still about the complex relationship between how race-related stressors are perceived and experienced and potential moderators such as strength of racial identity. PURPOSE This research examines the impact of a real-life stressor and strength of race identity on phys...

BACKGROUND Life stress contributes to symptom onset and exacerbation in the majority of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia (FD); research evidence is conflicting, however, as to the strength of these effects. AIMS To test prospectively the relation of chronic life stress threat to subsequent symptom intensity over time. PATIENTS One hundred and seventeen c...

Despite evidence that stressful experience can exacerbate the symptoms of asthma, little is known about the biological mechanisms through which this occurs. This study examined whether life stress reduces expression of the genes coding for the glucocorticoid receptor and the 2-adrenergic receptor. A total of 77 children were enrolled in the study (59% male; mean age, 13.5 years). Thirty-nine of...

Adolescents' peer experiences may have significant associations with biological stress-response systems, adding to or reducing allostatic load. This study examined relational victimization as a unique contributor to reactive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses as well as friendship quality and behavior as factors that may promote HPA recovery following a stressor. A total of 62 ...

Despite evidence that stressful experience can exacerbate the symptoms of asthma, little is known about the biological mechanisms through which this occurs. This study examined whether life stress reduces expression of the genes coding for the glucocorticoid receptor and the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor. A total of 77 children were enrolled in the study (59% male; mean age, 13.5 years). Thirty-n...

BACKGROUND Non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) and dialysis-dependent Stage 5 CKD (CKD5) are associated with a significant physical and psychosocial burden. Little is known, however, about the impact of stressful life events on CKD and CKD5 patients. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of stressful life events in CKD and CKD5 patients and identify the factors correlated...

investigating and ranking the stressor factors on employees’ job performance in urmia university of medical sciences staff heidarisani m , vahedi m , rahimi gh , rahimi b * received: 25 aug , 2013 accepted: 28 oct , 2013 abstract background & aims: stress and its effect is a significant problem in all organizations therefore employees and even human are living with it in recent decade. the purp...