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Relationship between a traumatic life event and an alteration in stress response
Author(s) -
Izutsu Takashi,
Tsutsumi Atsuro,
Asukai Nozomu,
Kurita Hiroshi,
Kawamura Noriyuki
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
stress and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1532-2998
pISSN - 1532-3005
DOI - 10.1002/smi.997
Subject(s) - stressor , anxiety , depression (economics) , traumatic stress , psychology , mental health , clinical psychology , fight or flight response , stress (linguistics) , psychiatry , gene , biochemistry , chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , economics , macroeconomics
An Erratum has been published for this article in Stress and Health 20(5) 2004, 309. The relationship between past traumatic experience and stress tolerance is poorly understood. To investigate the relationship among past exposure to trauma, stress tolerance and other mental health indexes, experience of traumatic events, depression, anxiety, and job strain were assessed in 2959 male and 279 female workers. Job strain was used as an indicator of stress tolerance in this study. Past traumatic experience was shown to increase later anxiety for both sexes, and increase depression and job strain in male subjects. For the first time, people with past traumatic experiences were found to feel a stressor's influence more strongly. Further, those influences differed according to the type of past trauma. The existence of interactions among the experience of traumatic events, depression/anxiety, and strain indicated that stress tolerance seemed to be an important element in the trauma response mechanism. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.