Factors promoting vulnerability to dysregulated stress reactivity and stress‐related disease

Stress Reactivity and Depressed Mood 1 Stress Reactivity and Vulnerability to Depressed Mood in College Students

Stress, immune reactivity and susceptibility to infectious disease.

Psychological stress is known to affect immune function and to predict infectious disease susceptibility. However, not all individuals who are stressed develop disease. In the present article, we report on a series of studies from our laboratory describing interindividual variability of immune responses to psychological stress. In our initial series of experimental investigations, we demonstrat...

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

Reactivity and vulnerability to stress-associated risk for upper respiratory illness.

OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that the greater a person's laboratory stress-elicited elevation in cortisol, the greater the life stress-related risk for upper respiratory infection (URI). We also tested the prediction that the greater the laboratory stress-elicited rise in natural killer cell (NK) cytotoxicity, the smaller the life stress-related URI risk. Finally, we explored whether symp...

Genetic and Other Vulnerability Factors for Anxiety and Stress Disorders

Despite dramatic advances in our understanding of genetics and neurobiology, the etiology of the anxiety disorders is still relatively unknown. To date, there remain no pathognomonic markers with which a presumptive diagnosis of an anxiety disorder may be made. This highlights the importance of the empirical epidemiologic approach to investigating the definitions and risk factors for the expres...