Stress, Coping, and the Treatment of Stress-Related Illness

Holroyd, Kenneth A.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-9122-1_8

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“…Consistent with past research (Faire & Theorell, 1977;Hinkle, 1974;Holroyd, 1979;Rabkin & Struening, 1976;Wershaw & Reinhart, 1974), the relationship between life events and health was weak. The only significant correlations between major life events and health were for events occurring 10 to 36 months prior to the assessment of health.…”

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Relationship of daily hassles, uplifts, and major life events to health status.

DeLongis¹,

Coyne²,

Dakof³

et al. 1982

Health Psychology

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Although studies of major life events continue to dominate the stress literature, such events have not been shown to be strong predictors of future illness. The present study examined the relationship of both major life events and daily hassles-the repeated or chronic strains of everyday life-to somatic health. In multiple regression analysis it was found that hassles scores were more strongly associated with somatic health than were life events scores. Hassles shared most of the variance in health that could be accounted for by life events, and when the effects of life events were statistically removed, hassles and health remained significantly related. Daily uplifts made little contribution to health that was independent of hassles. The assessment of daily hassles appears to be a useful approach to the study of life stress and could be an important supplement to the life events approach which, by itself, is insufficient for full understanding and practical prediction of health outcomes.

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confidence: 85%

Relationship of daily hassles, uplifts, and major life events to health status.

DeLongis¹,

Coyne²,

Dakof³

et al. 1982

Health Psychology

920

118

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“…He also theorizes that biofeedback occupies the client's attention with somatic processes, and thereby blocks stressful thoughts or events; and that the self-knowledge gained about stress responses and the events that produce it lead people to rethink the meaning of these events, and to change their behavior accordingly. A similar argument was made by Holroyd (1979). However, although cognitive processes may play some role in biofeedback, we nevertheless hypothesize a stronger somatic than cognitive effect for biofeedback, particularly in comparison with other techniques with a more obvious and direct cognitive focus.…”

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Stress management techniques: Are they all equivalent, or do they have specific effects?

Lehrer

Carr

Sargunaraj

et al. 1994

Biofeedback and Self-Regulation

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This article evaluates the hypothesis that various stress management techniques have specific effects. Studies comparing various techniques are reviewed, as well as previous literature reviews evaluating the effects of individual techniques. There is evidence that cognitively oriented methods have specific cognitive effects, that specific autonomic effects result from autonomically oriented methods, and that specific muscular effects are produced by muscularly oriented methods. Muscle relaxation and/or EMG biofeedback have greater muscular effects and smaller autonomic effects than finger temperature biofeedback and/or autogenic training. EMG biofeedback produces greater effects on particular muscular groups than progressive relaxation, and thermal biofeedback has greater finger temperature effects than autogenic training. Disorders with a predominant muscular component (e.g., tension headaches) are treated more effectively by muscularly oriented methods, while disorders in which autonomic dysfunction predominates (e.g., hypertension, migraine headaches) are more effectively treated by techniques with a strong autonomic component. Anxiety and phobias tend to be most effectively treated by methods with both strong cognitive and behavioral components.

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“…The post-Jacobson relaxation therapists have tended to give more emphasis to direct modification of cognitions; indeed, the whole field of behavior therapy in recent years has emphasized the importance of cognitive mediation of behavior and of direct treatment of cognitions. Even such a bedrock "somatic" technique as biofeedback has come to be interpreted as being mediated by cognitions and having profound effects upon cognitions (Lazarus, 1977;Holroyd, 1979). One practical corollary of this theoretical direction is the devotion of a relatively greater amount of therapy time to cognitive interventions and rather less to physical relaxation strategies in modern behavior therapy.…”

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Consciousness and Self-Regulation

1986

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Stress, Coping, and the Treatment of Stress-Related Illness

Cited by 20 publications

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Relationship of daily hassles, uplifts, and major life events to health status.

Relationship of daily hassles, uplifts, and major life events to health status.

Stress management techniques: Are they all equivalent, or do they have specific effects?

Consciousness and Self-Regulation

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