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A 5 page article analysis and summary of Gary Felsten's study -- "Minor stressors and depressed mood: reactivity is more strongly correlated than total stress" -- which appeared in 2002 in Stress and Health. No additional sources cited.
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analysis summarizes and discusses this research. All references in this analysis refer to the Felsten article. Authors rationale/hypothesis In past research on stress and its relationship to health, numerous
studies have found a reliable -- but modest -- correlation between major stressful events and negative physical and psychological health outcomes (p. 71). In order to explain the weak association
between stress and negative consequences, some researchers began to study the different ways in which individuals react to stress. Others looked to the nature of stress and proposed that major
stress events occurred too infrequently to account for the majority of stress reported by individuals. This line of research found that stress can be cumulative, resulting from
a build-up of stress caused by minor stressors; and, furthermore, this was found to be strongly correlated with physical and psychological disorder (p. 75). The study profiled in the
article encompasses these perspectives by comparing how total stress and "stress reactivity," that is, to what extent an individual is vulnerable to stress, when measured against a daily stress inventory
correlated with symptoms of depression as reported by female college students (p. 75). The hypothesis for the study was that "depressed mood would be more strongly correlated with stress reactivity
than with total stress" (p. 72). In other words, the researcher, based on previous study results, posited that how the individual reacts to stress wold be a more relevant
factor toward developing depression, than the stress itself. Also the study investigated how strongly each of the measures for stress correlated with neuroticism, a "personality measure found to be
strongly associated with stress, coping, and depression" (p. 76). Choice of subject -- could the type or number of subjects have been changed? This study employed a subject group
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