Moderating factors explaining stress reactions: Comparing chronic-without-acute-stress and chronic-with-acute-stress situations

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 407-419

  Sagy, Shifra ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chronic with acute stress situation; Chronic without acute stress situation; Moderating factors; Stress reactions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CIVIL DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; CIVIL DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0040675618     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223980209604167     Document Type: Article

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