- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Approaching Human Health as an Integrative Challenge: Introduction and Overview
- Behind the Scenes in Integrative Health Science: Understanding and Negotiating Data Management Challenges
- The Roles of Twin Studies and Modern Genomic Technologies in Integrative Health Science
- Early Life Adversity and Adult Health
- Gender, Early Life Adversity, and Adult Health
- Cumulative Stress and Health
- Determinants and Implications of Subjective Age Across Adulthood and Old Age
- Promoting Healthy Practices in the Workplace: Making Workers’ Health a Priority Before It Becomes a Problem
- Work and Family: Pathways to Health
- Intimate Partner Relationships and Health
- The Lifelong Health Effects of Parenting a Child With Developmental or Mental Health Problems
- Daily Positive Experiences and Health: Biobehavioral Pathways and Resilience to Daily Stress
- Family as a Naturally Occurring Stressor: Race, Psychosocial Factors, and Daily Health
- Social Capital, Altruistic Behavior, and Mental Health
- Psychosocial Resources and Physiological Dysregulation
- Biopsychosocial Patterning of Multimorbidity and Its Consequences
- Psychosocial Life Histories and Biological Pathways to Bone Health
- Biopsychosocial Pathways to Prediabetes and Diabetes
- Weight Identity Among Older Adults in the United States: Genetic and Environmental Influences
- Psychosocial Consequences of Body Weight and Obesity
- Cognition at Midlife: Antecedents and Consequences
- Associations Between Personality and Health Behaviors Across the Life Span
- Personality as a Determinant of Health Behaviors and Chronic Diseases: Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence
- The Road to Positive Health: Behavioral and Biological Pathways Linking Positive Psychological Functioning With Health Outcomes
- Distinguishing Between Enduring and Fragile Positive Affect: Implications for Health and Well-Being in Midlife
- The Temporal Dynamics of Emotional Responding: Implications for Well-Being and Health From the MIDUS Neuroscience Project
- Culture, Emotion, and Health
- Anger Expression and Health: The Cultural Moderation Hypothesis
- Personality and Socioeconomic Status Over the Adult Working Years
- Social Inequalities, Psychological Risk and Resilience, and Health
- Socioeconomic Status and Health-Related Biology: Links Between Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Psychological Factors, and HPA Activity in MIDUS
- Perceived Discrimination and Health: Integrative Findings
- Disparities in Health Between Black and White Americans: Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Research
- The Educational Gradient in Physiological Dysregulation: A Cross-Country Investigation
- The Great Recession, Inequality, and Health: An Integrative Approach
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Stressors have adverse effects on physical and mental health across the life span, and the accumulation of stressors is particularly damaging. Sociologists argue that the failure of prior research to account for a broad range of social stressors has underestimated the contributions of stress exposure to health behaviors and health status and to socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequities. The Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study provides an unparalleled opportunity for studying the health consequences of stressor accumulation. The topic of cumulative stress is introduced, and challenges in operationalizing this construct are described. Examples of studies from MIDUS are highlighted that have considered multiple social stressors simultaneously, the interaction between daily and chronic stressors, genetic contributions to the effects of stressor on health, and accumulation of stressors at multiple points in the life course. Drawing on principles and models from life course epidemiology and developmental science, future research directions are discussed.
Keywords: MIDUS, cumulative stress, social stressors, health behaviors, preclinical health risk factors, health outcomes, health, life course epidemiology, developmental science
Natalie Slopen UMD School of Public Health University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA
Celena Meyer University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA
David R. Williams School of Public Health Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Approaching Human Health as an Integrative Challenge: Introduction and Overview
- Behind the Scenes in Integrative Health Science: Understanding and Negotiating Data Management Challenges
- The Roles of Twin Studies and Modern Genomic Technologies in Integrative Health Science
- Early Life Adversity and Adult Health
- Gender, Early Life Adversity, and Adult Health
- Cumulative Stress and Health
- Determinants and Implications of Subjective Age Across Adulthood and Old Age
- Promoting Healthy Practices in the Workplace: Making Workers’ Health a Priority Before It Becomes a Problem
- Work and Family: Pathways to Health
- Intimate Partner Relationships and Health
- The Lifelong Health Effects of Parenting a Child With Developmental or Mental Health Problems
- Daily Positive Experiences and Health: Biobehavioral Pathways and Resilience to Daily Stress
- Family as a Naturally Occurring Stressor: Race, Psychosocial Factors, and Daily Health
- Social Capital, Altruistic Behavior, and Mental Health
- Psychosocial Resources and Physiological Dysregulation
- Biopsychosocial Patterning of Multimorbidity and Its Consequences
- Psychosocial Life Histories and Biological Pathways to Bone Health
- Biopsychosocial Pathways to Prediabetes and Diabetes
- Weight Identity Among Older Adults in the United States: Genetic and Environmental Influences
- Psychosocial Consequences of Body Weight and Obesity
- Cognition at Midlife: Antecedents and Consequences
- Associations Between Personality and Health Behaviors Across the Life Span
- Personality as a Determinant of Health Behaviors and Chronic Diseases: Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence
- The Road to Positive Health: Behavioral and Biological Pathways Linking Positive Psychological Functioning With Health Outcomes
- Distinguishing Between Enduring and Fragile Positive Affect: Implications for Health and Well-Being in Midlife
- The Temporal Dynamics of Emotional Responding: Implications for Well-Being and Health From the MIDUS Neuroscience Project
- Culture, Emotion, and Health
- Anger Expression and Health: The Cultural Moderation Hypothesis
- Personality and Socioeconomic Status Over the Adult Working Years
- Social Inequalities, Psychological Risk and Resilience, and Health
- Socioeconomic Status and Health-Related Biology: Links Between Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Psychological Factors, and HPA Activity in MIDUS
- Perceived Discrimination and Health: Integrative Findings
- Disparities in Health Between Black and White Americans: Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Research
- The Educational Gradient in Physiological Dysregulation: A Cross-Country Investigation
- The Great Recession, Inequality, and Health: An Integrative Approach
- Index
