This paper presents evidence from three samples, two of college students and one of participants in a community smoking-cessation program, for the reliability and validity of a 14-item instrument, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), designed to measure the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful. The PSS showed adequate reliability and,…
Journal of Health and Social Behavior Template
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Journal of Health and Social Behavior is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Health disparities and outcomes, Employment and Welfare Studies, Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving. Over its lifetime it has published 2,245 papers, which have received 333,802 citations.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Health disparities and outcomes Employment and Welfare Studies Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving Mental Health Treatment and Access Racial and Ethnic Identity Research |
| ISSN | 0022-1465 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 3.07 |
| h-index | 259 |
| i10-index | 1,668 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Michigan |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com |
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The Behavioral Model of Health Services Use was initially developed over 25 years ago. In the interim it has been subject to considerable application, reprobation, and alteration. I review its development and assess its continued relevance.
We examine the growing number of studies of survey respondents' global self-ratings of health as predictors of mortality in longitudinal studies of representative community samples. Twenty-seven studies in U.S. and international journals show impressively consistent findings. Global self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality in nearly all of the studies, despite the inclusion of…
This study analyzes the ways 100 community-residing men and women aged 45 to 64 coped with the stressful events of daily living during one year. Lazarus's cognitive-phenomenological analysis of psychological stress provides the theoreticalframework. Information about recently experienced stressful encounters was elicited through monthly interviews and self-report questionnaires completed between interviews. At the end of…
Bruce G. Link, Jo Phelan, Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Extra Issue: Forty Years of Medical Sociology: The State of the Art and Directions for the Future (1995), pp. 80-94