Richard H Rahe
Biographic Data
| ID | 254543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard H Rahe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard H |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahe |
| SIGNATURE | RAHE R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nevada Stress Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Novel Stress and Coping Workplace Program Reduces Illness and Healthcare Utilization
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine if a novel workplace stress management program, delivered either face-to-face or by self-help, would reduce illness and health services utilization among participants. METHODS: Five hundred one volunteers were randomly allocated to one of three groups: full intervention, which received assessment and personalized self-study feedback and was offered six face-to-face, small-group sessions; parti…
Mothers' Low Care in the Development of Alexithymia
We examined the influences of perceived parental bonding on scores on alexithymia in a sample of 232 college students. Ratings on mothers' care, a scale of the Parental Bonding Inventory were significantly and negatively correlated with scores on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, and also with ratings on Difficulty Describing Feelings but not Difficulty Identifying Feelings and Externally Oriented Thinking. These results were replicated in another s…
Alexithymia and Coping with Stress in Healthy Persons
We examined the relationship between alexithymia and coping with stress among 179 Japanese healthy volunteers. Two correlational analyses indicated that persons scored as alexithymic were more likely to indicate lower social support and poorer responses to stress. Multiple regression analysis also indicated that these lowered coping responses were fully explained by alexithymia scores. These results suggest that alexithymia, as a personality trai…
Severity of Alexithymia is Related to Psychosocial Factors in Patients with Peritoneal Dialysis
We examined the relationship between alexithymia and psychosocial factors in 72 peritoneal dialysis patients. The 72 patients had significantly higher scores on alexithymia and anxiety than did 73 healthy volunteers. The alexithymia scores were significantly and positively correlated with anxiety scores, suggesting that alexithymia may be related to anxiety derived from the stress associated with dialysis therapy. After 3 yr. of follow-up consult…
Acute versus chronic post-traumatic stress disorder
Van Gogh and the life chart
Type A Behavior Pattern and Coping and Defense
The relationship of coping and defense to Type A behavior pattern (TABP), as measured by the Structured Interview and the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS), was investigated to understand the dynamics of TABP and psychological factors associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. It was hypothesized that global TABP and its component "speed and impatience" would be related to the use of defense mechanisms, while the TABP attribute "job involveme…
Occupational Stress and Variation in Cigarette, Coffee, and Alcohol Consumption
The impact of occupational stress on self-reported cigarette, coffee, and alcohol consumption was investigated in a longitudinal field study. Substance consumption and subjective stress indicators were measured repeatedly for 34 men performing a job with known systematic variation in stress. Habitual cigarette smoking and coffee drinking were positively associated with chronic tendencies to perceive high stress; no associations were found between…
Stress, health and the social environment
Brief Group Therapy in Myocardial Infarction Rehabilitation
A trial of brief group therapy as part of a rehabilitation program for postmyocardial infarction (MI) patients was carried out. Forty-four patients surviving their first MI were randomly allocated to either group therapy or control group status and were followed over 4 years. An additional group of 17 patients were referred for post-MI group therapy sessions after the termination of the controlled experiment and were followed for 3 years. Patient…
Consulting to children in crisis
Life Change Measurement Clarification
Heritability of Type A Behavior
Ninety-three pairs of monozygotic and 97 pairs of dizygotic middle-aged, American, male twins were studied to estimate the heritability of Type A behavior--a coronary heart disease-prone behavior pattern. Participants were given the interview assessment of Type A behavior. In addition, they completed four psychological test batteries: the Thurstone Temperament Schedule, the Jenkins Activity Survey, the California Psychological Inventory, and the …
Stressful Life Events—Their Nature and Effects
The Three Investigators Study. Serum Uric Acid, Cholesterol, and Cortisol Variability During Stresses of Everyday Life
Serum uric acid, cholesterol, and cortisol variability were studied, semiweekly, over three to six months' time in three medical investigators as they underwent the stresses of everyday life. These men maintained diaries of their life events, with particular references to moods and feelings engendered by these events. Marked elevations in serum cholesterol was seen in one investigator throughout an unpleasant residential move; repeated peaks in s…
Psychosocial Predictors of Illness Behavior and Failure in Stressful Training
Richard H. Rahe, R. J. Biersner, David H. Ryman, Ransom J. Arthur, Psychosocial Predictors of Illness Behavior and Failure in Stressful Training, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1972), pp. 393-397
Psychologic Correlates of Serum Cholesterol in Man
Correlations between serum cholesterol levels and self-reported intensities of various moods and feelings--namely, motivation, arousal, happiness, depression, anger, fear and lethargy--were investigated in 20 subjects over a 2-month period. Consistent and occasionally significant negative correlations were seen between subjects' serum cholesterol levels and their moods and feelings of motivation, arousal and happiness. Consistent and more frequen…
An Identical Twin Study of Psychosocial Factors in Coronary Heart Disease in Sweden
Thirty-two pairs of Swedish identical male twins, 42-67 years old, who were discordant for coronary heart disease (CHD), were analyzed for variability in subjects' psychosocial patterns regarding their work, lack of leisure, home problems and life dissatisfactions. Subjects' psychosocial scores for all these four categories significantly differentiated those subjects who had had previous infarction from their less CHD afflicted brother. Subjects'…
Adrenal Cortical Activity Changes During Underwater Demolition Team Training
One-third of a Navy UDT class (32 men) was followed by thrice-weekly psychological assessment and measurement of serum cortisol until they dropped from training or graduated. Mean cortisol values for the 20 men who completed the course ranged between 20 and 26 μg%. Against this background of chronically elevated levels, transient increases in serum cortisol occurred coincident with the introduction of new equipment (face mask, swim fins, SCUBA, w…
The social readjustment rating scale
An Unusual Cardiac (Ventricular) Arrhythmia in a Child
An 11-year-old boy suddenly developed paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, a very rare and often fatal cardiac arrhythmia, and was referred for psychiatric care after months of only moderate response to medical management. The boy and his parents were treated for over a year. The parents learned through close observation that feelings of impatience, frustration, and annoyance were associated with ventricular tachycardia and that postexercise perio…
Occupational Stress and Variation in Cigarette, Coffee, and Alcohol Consumption
The impact of occupational stress on self-reported cigarette, coffee, and alcohol consumption was investigated in a longitudinal field study. Substance consumption and subjective stress indicators were measured repeatedly for 34 men performing a job with known systematic variation in stress. Habitual cigarette smoking and coffee drinking were positively associated with chronic tendencies to perceive high stress; no associations were found between…
Acute versus chronic post-traumatic stress disorder
Psychosocial Predictors of Illness Behavior and Failure in Stressful Training
Richard H. Rahe, R. J. Biersner, David H. Ryman, Ransom J. Arthur, Psychosocial Predictors of Illness Behavior and Failure in Stressful Training, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1972), pp. 393-397
An Unusual Cardiac (Ventricular) Arrhythmia in a Child
An 11-year-old boy suddenly developed paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, a very rare and often fatal cardiac arrhythmia, and was referred for psychiatric care after months of only moderate response to medical management. The boy and his parents were treated for over a year. The parents learned through close observation that feelings of impatience, frustration, and annoyance were associated with ventricular tachycardia and that postexercise perio…
The social readjustment rating scale
Adrenal Cortical Activity Changes During Underwater Demolition Team Training
One-third of a Navy UDT class (32 men) was followed by thrice-weekly psychological assessment and measurement of serum cortisol until they dropped from training or graduated. Mean cortisol values for the 20 men who completed the course ranged between 20 and 26 μg%. Against this background of chronically elevated levels, transient increases in serum cortisol occurred coincident with the introduction of new equipment (face mask, swim fins, SCUBA, w…
An Identical Twin Study of Psychosocial Factors in Coronary Heart Disease in Sweden
Thirty-two pairs of Swedish identical male twins, 42-67 years old, who were discordant for coronary heart disease (CHD), were analyzed for variability in subjects' psychosocial patterns regarding their work, lack of leisure, home problems and life dissatisfactions. Subjects' psychosocial scores for all these four categories significantly differentiated those subjects who had had previous infarction from their less CHD afflicted brother. Subjects'…
Psychologic Correlates of Serum Cholesterol in Man
Correlations between serum cholesterol levels and self-reported intensities of various moods and feelings--namely, motivation, arousal, happiness, depression, anger, fear and lethargy--were investigated in 20 subjects over a 2-month period. Consistent and occasionally significant negative correlations were seen between subjects' serum cholesterol levels and their moods and feelings of motivation, arousal and happiness. Consistent and more frequen…
Psychosocial Predictors of Illness Behavior and Failure in Stressful Training
Richard H. Rahe, R. J. Biersner, David H. Ryman, Ransom J. Arthur, Psychosocial Predictors of Illness Behavior and Failure in Stressful Training, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1972), pp. 393-397
The Three Investigators Study. Serum Uric Acid, Cholesterol, and Cortisol Variability During Stresses of Everyday Life
Serum uric acid, cholesterol, and cortisol variability were studied, semiweekly, over three to six months' time in three medical investigators as they underwent the stresses of everyday life. These men maintained diaries of their life events, with particular references to moods and feelings engendered by these events. Marked elevations in serum cholesterol was seen in one investigator throughout an unpleasant residential move; repeated peaks in s…
Stressful Life Events—Their Nature and Effects
Life Change Measurement Clarification
Heritability of Type A Behavior
Ninety-three pairs of monozygotic and 97 pairs of dizygotic middle-aged, American, male twins were studied to estimate the heritability of Type A behavior--a coronary heart disease-prone behavior pattern. Participants were given the interview assessment of Type A behavior. In addition, they completed four psychological test batteries: the Thurstone Temperament Schedule, the Jenkins Activity Survey, the California Psychological Inventory, and the …
Stress, health and the social environment
Brief Group Therapy in Myocardial Infarction Rehabilitation
A trial of brief group therapy as part of a rehabilitation program for postmyocardial infarction (MI) patients was carried out. Forty-four patients surviving their first MI were randomly allocated to either group therapy or control group status and were followed over 4 years. An additional group of 17 patients were referred for post-MI group therapy sessions after the termination of the controlled experiment and were followed for 3 years. Patient…
Consulting to children in crisis
Type A Behavior Pattern and Coping and Defense
The relationship of coping and defense to Type A behavior pattern (TABP), as measured by the Structured Interview and the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS), was investigated to understand the dynamics of TABP and psychological factors associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. It was hypothesized that global TABP and its component "speed and impatience" would be related to the use of defense mechanisms, while the TABP attribute "job involveme…
Occupational Stress and Variation in Cigarette, Coffee, and Alcohol Consumption
The impact of occupational stress on self-reported cigarette, coffee, and alcohol consumption was investigated in a longitudinal field study. Substance consumption and subjective stress indicators were measured repeatedly for 34 men performing a job with known systematic variation in stress. Habitual cigarette smoking and coffee drinking were positively associated with chronic tendencies to perceive high stress; no associations were found between…
Van Gogh and the life chart
Acute versus chronic post-traumatic stress disorder
Alexithymia and Coping with Stress in Healthy Persons
We examined the relationship between alexithymia and coping with stress among 179 Japanese healthy volunteers. Two correlational analyses indicated that persons scored as alexithymic were more likely to indicate lower social support and poorer responses to stress. Multiple regression analysis also indicated that these lowered coping responses were fully explained by alexithymia scores. These results suggest that alexithymia, as a personality trai…
Severity of Alexithymia is Related to Psychosocial Factors in Patients with Peritoneal Dialysis
We examined the relationship between alexithymia and psychosocial factors in 72 peritoneal dialysis patients. The 72 patients had significantly higher scores on alexithymia and anxiety than did 73 healthy volunteers. The alexithymia scores were significantly and positively correlated with anxiety scores, suggesting that alexithymia may be related to anxiety derived from the stress associated with dialysis therapy. After 3 yr. of follow-up consult…
Mothers' Low Care in the Development of Alexithymia
We examined the influences of perceived parental bonding on scores on alexithymia in a sample of 232 college students. Ratings on mothers' care, a scale of the Parental Bonding Inventory were significantly and negatively correlated with scores on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, and also with ratings on Difficulty Describing Feelings but not Difficulty Identifying Feelings and Externally Oriented Thinking. These results were replicated in another s…
A Novel Stress and Coping Workplace Program Reduces Illness and Healthcare Utilization
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine if a novel workplace stress management program, delivered either face-to-face or by self-help, would reduce illness and health services utilization among participants. METHODS: Five hundred one volunteers were randomly allocated to one of three groups: full intervention, which received assessment and personalized self-study feedback and was offered six face-to-face, small-group sessions; parti…
Psychology (17 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Internal Medicine (7 works) · Internal Medicine (7 works) · Cardiac Health and Mental Health (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Feeling (4 works)