Journal ArticleJournal of Community Psychology · January 1, 2004
In the current paper we focus on the role of physical fitness in the life stress process for both psychological and physical well-being. The major research question posed in the current study is: Does physical fitness deter distress in a model containing t ...
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Journal ArticleJ Consult Clin Psychol · December 2000
This study compared depressive symptomatology among Chinese psychiatric outpatients versus the general Chinese population, and across 3 cultural groups--Chinese, Chinese American, and Caucasian American students--by use of the Center for Epidemiological St ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of aging and health · May 2000
ObjectivesThis article examines the nature of distal stressors over a 15-year period and the extent to which they contribute to the explanation of additional variation in the life stress model.MethodsThe study uses data collected from a c ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health and social behavior · December 1999
Current literature on social support identifies social structure as a source of distress. However, past efforts tend to operationalize structure in terms of demographic characteristics. The present paper argues that structure should be conceived of as part ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · September 1999
The main goal of this research is to better understand age differences in the effects of social networks on mental health. Using a social network approach to revise the convoy of social support model (Kahn and Antonucci, 1980), we examine specifically how ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of aging and health · August 1996
This article examines the relationship between stress and distress in the life course, emphasizing the time elapsed between the event and measurement of psychological distress. Stressors are conceptualized as either distal or proximal based on how recentl ...
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Journal ArticleAsiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques (Switzerland) Special issue on Chinese Societies at the Dawn of the Third Millennium. XLIX · 1995Cite
Journal ArticleJournal of health and social behavior · December 1991
The paper focuses on two forces (stressors and resources) in the life stress process as they affect psychological distress. Utilizing three waves of panel data from a representative community sample in upstate New York, six causal models of the life stress ...
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