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For more than two decades, researchers in several disciplines have been interested in understanding how socially induced stress manifests itself in psychological distress, in symptoms of psychiatric disorder, or in other types of social dysfunction or health problems. Various models of the stress process have been developed to address these issues (e. g., Billings & Moos, 1982; Cronkite & Moos, 1984; Finney, Moos, Cronkite, & Gamble, 1983; Lazarus & Folkman, 1984; Lazarus, Kanner, & Folkman, 1980; Pearlin, Lieberman, Menaghan, & Mullan, 1981). All of these models have as their primary focus the nature of the association between sources of stress and their manifestations. All of them also postulate the existence of at least three critical groups of mediators—social supports, psychosocial resources, and coping resources—that alter the effects of Stressors on illness or dysfunction. More recently, stress models have also been elaborated through a consideration of social characteristics of individuals and the effects of prior functioning. The result of this work has been the development of a stress process paradigm that is used widely in the study of health and illness outcomes.
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Avison, W.R., Gotlib, I.H. (1994). Introduction and Overview. In: Avison, W.R., Gotlib, I.H. (eds) Stress and Mental Health. The Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1106-3_1
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