During the 23 years since the original work of Holmes & Rahe, research into stressful life
events on human subjects has tended towards the development of longer and more …

Background. A prospective epidemiology study evaluated the role of specific social and
psychological variables in the prediction of depressive symptomatology and disorders …

Background: Several studies have pointed to the importance of social support in influencing
the onset and course of a psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia or depression …

Offers guidelines for the selection of clinical measurement methods in psychiatry. Initial
discussion focuses on the most central methodological problems in clinical psychiatric …

The term'social support'has been widely adopted within both medicine and psychiatry to
denote those aspects of relationships thought to confer a beneficial effect on physical and …

It has been suggested that deficits or impairments in social functioning may explain the
depleted support networks of the mentally ill. With this in mind, 145 long-term users of day …

Background. Current knowledge about associations between psychosocial factors and non-
psychotic symptoms provide little information about their relationship to specific types of …

A correlational cross-sectional design was used to investigate the relationship between
adolescent depression and psychosocial factors: stressful life events and social support. The …

STRESS AND AFFORDABILITY OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT: A
COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND NIGERIA ADANNA U Page 1 1 …

Several reviews on social functioning measurements using structured interviews or
questionnaires have been published in recent years. This report examines Weissman and …