Psychological stress is a public health issue even in children and has been associated with
a number of immunological diseases. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship …

Stress is defined as a state of threatened homeostasis or disharmony that is counteracted by
a complex repertoire of physiological and behavioral adaptive responses in order to …

Stressful life events evidently have an impact on development of allergic diseases, but the
mechanism linking stress to pathological changes of immune system function is still not fully …

The aim of this study was to evaluate immune function in acute stress in medical students
before academic examinations. Twenty-five medical students were selected because they …

The experience of childhood life events is associated with higher vulnerability to develop
psychiatric disorders. One of the pathways suggested to lead to this vulnerability is activation …

Objective Two important determinants of physiological stress responses have been
identified, uncontrollability of the stressor and amount of effort involved in coping with the …

OBJECTIVE: Family processes have a substantial impact on children's social and emotional
well-being, but little is known about the effects of family stress on children's physical health …

OBJECTIVE—In retrospective studies, a number of disparate environmental factors
(including experiences of serious life events) have been proposed as trigger mechanisms …

In this chapter, we provide an overview of how stress affects immune functioning and
examine evidence in the literature regarding various intrapersonal and interpersonal factors …

Highlights•Psychological stress can dysregulate the human immune system.•Stress can
impact immunity differentially across individuals and contexts.•Recent work in this area has …