Evaluating life events and chronic stressors in relation to health: Stressors and health in clinical work

Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue , 2012, Pages 58-71

  Theorell, Töres ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COOPERATION; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; CHILD; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PARENTING; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84856013904     PISSN: 00653268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000330004-14     Document Type: Article

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