Life Change and Illness Studies: Past History and Future Directions

The social readjustment rating scale

1967 • 10,950 citations

Social Support as a Moderator of Life Stress

1976 • 6,562 citations

The Stress of Life

1956 • 5,480 citations

Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage.

1917 • 1,959 citations

Stressful Life Events: Their Nature and Effects.

1976 • 1,427 citations

Stressful Life Events: Their Nature and Effects

1975 • 1,277 citations

Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage

1929 • 1,164 citations

Coping and Adaptation.

1976 • 1,162 citations

PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSETS, LIFE CRISIS AND THE PROGNOSIS OF PREGNANCY12

1972 • 809 citations

Crises and Life Changes and the Onset of Schizophrenia

1968 • 685 citations

Health Behavior, Illness Behavior and Sick Role behavior

1966 • 597 citations

The Coronary-Care Unit

1968 • 470 citations

An elementary textbook of psychoanalysis

1955 • 459 citations

Desirable versus undesirable life events: Their relationship to stress and mental distress.

1975 • 443 citations

Physical Illness, the Individual and the Coping Processes

1970 • 436 citations

Psychological Stress and Coping in Adaptation and Illness

1974 • 429 citations

Health Behavior, Illness Behavior, and Sick-Role Behavior

1966 • 427 citations

Suicide Attempts and Recent Life Events

1975 • 387 citations

Social stress and illness onset

1964 • 338 citations

Stress and disease.

1953 • 310 citations

The health of widows in the year following bereavement

1968 • 269 citations

Consequences of Social Conflict on Plasma Testosterone Levels in Rhesus Monkeys

1975 • 244 citations

Relationship Between Psychological Defenses and Mean Urinary 17-Hydroxycorticosteroid Excretion Rates

1964 • 215 citations

Life Events and Mental Status: A Longitudinal Study

1972 • 210 citations

Studies of ulcerative colitis

1955 • 208 citations

Life Stress and Illness

1974 • 201 citations

Recent Life Changes, Myocardial Infarction, and Abrupt Coronary Death

1974 • 191 citations

The history of psychiatry

1966 • 185 citations

Abnormalities of Pregnancy as a Function of Anxiety and Life Stress

1974 • 179 citations

The Scope of Psychoendocrine Research

1968 • 162 citations

Life Stress and Illness

1975 • 158 citations

Psychosocial factors and sudden cardiac death: A pilot study

1971 • 152 citations

Psychosocial factors and myocardial infarction—I. An inpatient study in Sweden

1971 • 135 citations

Life Events, Subjective Stress, and Traffic Accidents

1974 • 132 citations

Help Patterns in Severe Illness: The Roles of Kin Network, Non-Family Resources, and Institutions

1972 • 112 citations

The influence of recent life experience on the health of college freshmen

1975 • 110 citations

Stress in families of children who have ingested poisons.

1975 • 109 citations

Evidence of psychosocial factors in the development of pulmonary tuberculosis.

1957 • 108 citations

Relationship of mortality rates to entrance to a home for the aged.

1961 • 101 citations

Subjects' Recent Life Changes and Coronary Heart Disease in Finland

1973 • 98 citations

Subjects' recent life changes and their near-future illness reports.

1972 • 97 citations

Studies of ulcerative colitis

1954 • 87 citations

Life changes and myocardial infarction: Individual differences in life change scaling

1975 • 87 citations

Emotions and Bodily Changes. A Survey of Literature on Psychosomatic Interrelationships

1955 • 83 citations

Psychological Factors and Reticuloendothelial Disease

1958 • 81 citations

Relationship of Life Change, Maladaptive Aggression, and Upper Respiratory Infection in Male College Students

1969 • 78 citations

Emotional Factors in Juvenile Diabetes Mellitus: A Study of Early Life Experience of Adolescent Diabetics

1971 • 74 citations

A Longitudinal Study of 21 Subjects with Coronary Heart Disease: Life Changes, Catecholamine Excretion and Related Biochemical Reactions

1972 • 69 citations

PERFORATED PEPTIC ULCER DURING THE PERIOD OF HEAVY AIR-RAIDS

1944 • 68 citations

Psychotropic Drug Response. Advances in Prediction.

1969 • 67 citations

Life changes as etiologic factors in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

1972 • 66 citations

Groups under stress : psychological research in Sealab II

1968 • 65 citations

A CLINICAL GUIDE TO PROGNOSIS IN STRESS DISEASES

1952 • 64 citations

A Model for Life Changes and Illness Research

1974 • 63 citations

A summary of experimental evidence relating life stress to diabetes mellitus.

1952 • 63 citations

Conquest of Plague

1953 • 60 citations

Psychologic Processes and Ischemic Stroke (Occlusive Cerebrovascular Disease)

1971 • 60 citations

Plasma lipids and urinary excretion of catecholamines in man during experimentally induced emotional stress, and their modification by nicotinic acid

1968 • 60 citations

Groups Under Stress: Psychological Research in SeaLab II

1969 • 59 citations

Social aspects of coronary heart disease in two adjacent, ethnically different communities.

1966 • 59 citations

THE CONQUEST OF PLAGUE

1954 • 57 citations

INCIDENCE OF PERFORATED PEPTIC ULCER

1942 • 56 citations

Psychosocial factors and myocardial infarction—II. An outpatient study in Sweden

1971 • 55 citations

Object Loss, Giving Up, and the Onset of Psychiatric Disease

1965 • 51 citations

A self-administered social assets scale for predicting physical and psychological illness and health

1973 • 49 citations

A Prospective Study of Life Changes and Subsequent Health Changes

1972 • 49 citations

Serum Uric Acid and Cholesterol Variability

1968 • 48 citations

Psychologic Correlates of Serum Cholesterol in Man

1971 • 43 citations

Blood Pressure and Heart-Rate Response to Verbal Instruction and Relaxation in Hypertension

1974 • 42 citations

Demographic and psychosocial factors in acute illness reporting

1970 • 38 citations

The Three Investigators Study. Serum Uric Acid, Cholesterol, and Cortisol Variability During Stresses of Everyday Life

1974 • 38 citations

Stressful Underwater Demolition Training

1967 • 35 citations

Recent life changes, myocardial infarction, and abrupt coronary death. Studies in Helsinki

1974 • 30 citations

Force Breeding, Social Disorder and Mammary Tumor Formation in CBA/USC Mouse Colonies: A Pilot Study

1975 • 28 citations

Psychosomatic aspects of infantile pyloric stenosis

1972 • 27 citations

Life change patterns prior to death in ischaemic heart disease. A study on death-discordant twins

1975 • 26 citations

Psychosocial Factors and Myocardial Infarction

1977 • 26 citations

Psychosocial effects of disaster: birth rate in Aberfan.

1975 • 23 citations

Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease, designed to elucidate the action of the imagination (2nd American ed.).

1884 • 22 citations

Illness Prediction Studies

1972 • 21 citations

Some Psychosocial Aspects of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

1958 • 21 citations

FAMILY DISORGANIZATION AND TEENAGE AUTO ACCIDENTS

1976 • 18 citations

The Physiological Effects of Exercise Programs on Adults

1971 • 13 citations

Emotional adjustment and catecholamine excretion during early recovery from myocardial infarction

1974 • 13 citations

The Physiological Effects of Exercise Programs on Adults

1970 • 11 citations

THE PSYCHOSOMATIC APPROACH IN MEDICINE

1957 • 10 citations

Serum uric acid and cholesterol variability. A comprehensive view of underwater demolition team training

1968 • 9 citations

The Contributions of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry to Psychosomatic Medicine

1967 • 4 citations

Stressful underwater demolition training. Serum urate and cholesterol variability

1967 • 4 citations

Academic Lecture Community Psychiatry Its Social and Historic Derivations

1965 • 3 citations