Repressive/defensive coping, endogenous opioids and health: How a life so perfect can make you sick

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-31

  Jamner, Larry D ^a   Leigh, Hoyle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endorphin; Defensiveness; Emotion; Immune function; Naloxone; Repressive coping

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; NALOXONE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN STIMULATION; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BETA-ENDORPHIN; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NALOXONE; NARCOTICS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REPRESSION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033580071     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(98)00134-6     Document Type: Article

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