Life Stress and Health: A Review of Conceptual Issues and Recent Findings

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 346-355

  Slavich, George M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

classroom instruction; cytokines; disease; health; inflammation; interventions; measurement; mechanisms; risk; STRAIN; stress; transformational teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986268038     PISSN: 00986283     EISSN: 15328023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0098628316662768     Document Type: Article

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