Hope and Other Deterrents to Illness
- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Vol. 39 (4) , 515-524
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1985.39.4.515
Abstract
Animal and human research have demonstrated that events during early development influence vulnerability to physical and mental illness. In addition, the effectiveness of the coping methods used to deal with the problems of living can affect susceptibility to illness. The intervening mechanisms between stressful life experiences and illness appear to involve physiological homeostasis and immune competence.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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