Higher Perceived Stress but Lower Cortisol Levels Found among Young Greek Adults Living in a Stressful Social Environment in Comparison with Swedish Young Adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Faresjö, Åshild ^a   Theodorsson, Elvar ^a   Chatziarzenis, Marios ^b   Sapouna, Vasiliki ^c   Claesson, Hans Peter ^a   Koppner, Jenny ^a   Faresjö, Tomas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GREECE; HAIR LEVEL; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; GREECE; HAIR; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884190583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073828     Document Type: Article

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