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Front Neuroendocrinol. 2018 Apr;49:146-169. doi: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2018.03.001. Epub 2018 Mar 15.

More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science.

Frontiers in neuroendocrinology

Elissa S Epel, Alexandra D Crosswell, Stefanie E Mayer, Aric A Prather, George M Slavich, Eli Puterman, Wendy Berry Mendes

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
  4. Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
  5. Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
  6. School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].
  7. Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 29551356 PMCID: PMC6345505 DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2018.03.001

Abstract

Stress can influence health throughout the lifespan, yet there is little agreement about what types and aspects of stress matter most for human health and disease. This is in part because "stress" is not a monolithic concept but rather, an emergent process that involves interactions between individual and environmental factors, historical and current events, allostatic states, and psychological and physiological reactivity. Many of these processes alone have been labeled as "stress." Stress science would be further advanced if researchers adopted a common conceptual model that incorporates epidemiological, affective, and psychophysiological perspectives, with more precise language for describing stress measures. We articulate an integrative working model, highlighting how stressor exposures across the life course influence habitual responding and stress reactivity, and how health behaviors interact with stress. We offer a Stress Typology articulating timescales for stress measurement - acute, event-based, daily, and chronic - and more precise language for dimensions of stress measurement.

Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Acute stress; Affect; Allostatic load; Appraisals; Chronic stress; Daily stress; Emotional contagion; Emotions; Measurement; Motivational states

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