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Animal models of stress have been developed largely on the basis of data from studies which impose rather severe changes on the animal’s environment. As many of the other papers to this volume clearly demonstrate, stressors such as the separation of young from their mothers, imobilization or enforced swimming are associated with profound changes in both peripheral and central components of stress mechanisms. In the study of human stress, such manipulations are, of course, impossible, although natural disasters and trauma provide important evidence on the effects of severe stressors (eg, Marshall, 1947). More often, however, when we talk of stress in relation to people, it is in the context of normal social activity: work, family life and leisure.
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Robert, G., Hockey, J., Wiethoff, M. (1990). Assessing Patterns of Adjustment to the Demands of Work. In: Puglisi-Allegra, S., Oliverio, A. (eds) Psychobiology of Stress. NATO ASI Series, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1990-7_21
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