Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood

How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4840396
AutoresLoren L Toussaint (0000-0001-8876-1848), Loren Toussaint (Luther College), Grant S Shields (0000-0002-0827-4669, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA), Gabriel Dorn (Luther College), George M Slavich (0000-0001-5710-3818, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Ano2016
Volume21
Fascículo6
Páginas1004-1014
Data de publicação2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359105314544132
PMID25139892
PMCIDPMC4363296
OpenAlexW2127698766
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas37
Referências citadas40

To examine risk and resilience factors that affect health, lifetime stress exposure histories, dispositional forgiveness levels, and mental and physical health were assessed in 148 young adults. Greater lifetime stress severity and lower levels of forgiveness each uniquely predicted worse mental and physical health. Analyses also revealed a graded Stress × Forgiveness interaction effect, wherein associations between stress and mental health were weaker for persons exhibiting more forgiveness. These data are the first to elucidate the interactive effects of cumulative stress severity and forgiveness on health, and suggest that developing a more forgiving coping style may help minimize stress-related disorders

Affect (linguistics · Coping (psychology · Developmental psychology · Forgiveness · Mental health · Physical health · Psychiatry · Psychological resilience · Young adult · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Social Psychology