Stress and Health: Major Findings and Policy Implications

By P. Thoits. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2010

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Stress and the Mental Health of Populations of Color:Advancing Our Understanding of Race-related Stressors (2018, background): “This is important because failure to measure stress comprehensively underestimates the negative effects of stressors on physical and mental health (Thoits 2010).”
The Effects of Stress on Physical Activity and Exercise (2014, neutral): “Typically, this has been utilized to explain how chronic stressors relate to physiological maladaptations in middle and later life [32]; however, mounting evidence also implicates traumatic childhood experiences, stressors that have a reverberating impact for decades [33, 34].”
SELF-REPORTED EXPERIENCES OF DISCRIMINATION AND HEALTH: SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES, ONGOING CONTROVERSIES, AND EMERGING ISSUES (2015, background): “Research on psychosocial stress more broadly suggests that failure to measure stress comprehensively could lead to a dramatic underestimation of the association between stress and health (Thoits 2010).”
A Longitudinal Study of Social Status, Perceived Discrimination, and Physical and Emotional Health Among Older Adults (2012, background): “Repeated stressors overtax individuals’ ability to cope, and eventually do damage that increases the probability of injury, disease, and psychological disorder (Pearlin, 1989; Pearlin et al., 2005; Thoits, 2010; Turner, Wheaton, & Lloyd, 1995).”
Religious coping, stress, and quality of life of Muslim university students in New Zealand (2014, background): “The negative impact that stress can have on an individual’s physical and mental health is well established (Thoits, 2010), and effective coping strategies are thus crucial to maintaining QOL and psychological well-being.”
Minority stress and physical health among sexual minority individuals (2013, background): “A substantial body of research has demonstrated that stress, in a multitude of forms, has a negative effect on people’s physical health (for a review, see Thoits, 2010).”
Navigating the Doctoral Experience: The Role of Social Support in Successful Degree Completion (2012, background): “Social Support as a Mediator of Stress Several decades of stress-related research has consistently shown that stress has damaging effects on one’s physical and psychological health (Kasl, 1984; Schnurr & Green, 2004; Thoits, 2010).”
Psychological restoration in urban gardens related to garden type, biodiversity and garden-related stress (2020, background): “Urban gardens contribute to psychological restoration and stress reduction, which research has shown to be related to further positive health effects (Cohen et al., 2012; Thoits, 2010).”
Helicopter Parenting and Emerging Adult Self-Efficacy: Implications for Mental and Physical Health (2016, background): “The promotion of self-efficacy is important as maintaining higher levels of selfefficacy is linked to the development of problem-solving and coping behaviors that help to buffer or amplify vulnerability to negative stressors (Thoits 2010).”
Family Relationships and Well-Being (2017, background): “Social support may provide a resource for coping that dulls the detrimental impact of stressors on well-being (Thoits, 2010), and support may also promote well-being through increased self-esteem, which involves more positive views of oneself (Fukukawa et al., 2000).”
Understanding Concealable Stigmatized Identities: The Role of Identity in Psychological, Physical, and Behavioral Outcomes (2011, background): “Researchers have examined institutionalized discrimination (Gee, 2008; Williams & Collins, 2001), physician and patient interactions (Penner, Albrecht, Coleman, & Norton, 2007), and the cumulative stress of perceiving discrimination (Thoits, 2010).”
Female Gamers’ Experience of Online Harassment and Social Support in Online Gaming: A Qualitative Study (2018, background): “Thoits’ (2010) description of social support makes reference to emotional, informational, and/or practical assistance from significant others, and argues there is a distinction between actual support that is received from others or simply perceived to be available when needed.”