A study of 20 manic patients, with patient and matched control comparisons, showed a two fold increase in life events during the 4 month period before admission to hospital. Life events, independent of affective illness and having significant objective negative impact (i.e. traumatic) were significantly more common. These findings are considered in relation to social relationships, family histo...

There has been a long standing interest in the possible association of stress with illness. A host of studies have suggested a positive relationship between life events and physical illness (Wolff, 1950; Schmale and Engel, 1967; Holmes and Rahe, 1967; Grant et al, 1974). A similar relationship between the onset of psycliiatric illness and life events has also been observed but with lesser consi...

BACKGROUND Parents of young children generally report more depressive symptoms than parents of adult children or people without children, mainly because the presence of young children increases exposure to significant stressors (such as stressful life events). However, most studies on the depressogenic role of stressful life events in parents of young children have focussed on mothers. METHOD...

BACKGROUND People with intellectual disabilities (ID) may be exposed to more life events due to different living circumstances and limited coping abilities. The frequency of life events may increase with age due to age-related decline, loss of significant others and forced relocations. We studied the occurrence of life events in adults with mild to profound ID aged ≥ 50 years and their associat...

aim and background: it is estimated that coronary heart diseases (chd) will be the major cause of mortality by the year 2020. the traditional factors such as age, genetics, smoking and obesity, account only half of the variance in chd.  therefore, regarding increasing concern about the psychosocial factors, the purpose of present study was to evaluate the role of personality, stress and social ...

Climatic warming is associated with organisms breeding earlier in the season than is typical for their species. In some species, however, response to warming is more complex than a simple advance in the timing of all life history events preceding reproduction. Disparities in the extent to which different components of the reproductive phenology of organisms vary with climatic warming indicate t...

introduction: unfortunately, the prevalence of traumatic events among children is quite high. these events will result in different kinds of affective, cognitive and behavioral problems. this study examines the frequency of life traumatic events and their psychological impacts in the urban students of kermanshah in 2006. materials and methods: using cluster random sampling, 475 primary and seco...

We examined whether self-esteem and narcissism predict the occurrence of stressful life events (i.e., selection) and whether stressful life events predict change in self-esteem and narcissism (i.e., socialization). The analyses were based on longitudinal data from 2 studies, including samples of 328 young adults (Study 1) and 371 adults (Study 2). The effects of self-esteem and narcissism were ...