The handbook of stress science : biology, psychology, and health

709 Pages·2011·13.477 MB·English

by  Richard J Contrada, Andrew Baum

The Handbook of
Stress Science:
Biology, Psychology, and Health
Richard J. Contrada, PhD, is a Professor in the Depart­ Andrew Baum, PhD, is Jenkins Garrett Professor of
ment of Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of Psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington. He
New Jersey. He obtained a PhD in Social/Personality is also Director of the Center for the Study of Health and
Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University Illness in the College of Science at UTA and has appoint­
of New York in 1985 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at ments at the University of Texas Southwestern and the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Simmons Cancer Center at UTSW. He earned his under­
Bethesda, Maryland, before joining the faculty at Rutgers graduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh and his
in 1986. His work addresses psychosocial, behavioral, and PhD at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
psychophysiological aspects of physical disease, with a He was recently recruited to Texas from the University
focus on cardiovascular disorders. He has a longstanding of Pittsburgh, where he was Professor of Psychiatry and
interest in the role of personality in physical health and Deputy Director for Cancer Control and Population
his research on psychophysiologic mechanisms linking Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
personality to cardiovascular disease has been supported He was also Director of the Behavioral Medicine Program
by the National Institute of Mental Health. His investiga­ and the African American Cancer Program and Director
tions of psychosocial vulnerability and protective factors of the Division of Cancer Control and Supportive Care
in adaptation to cardiac surgery have been funded by the Sciences at the UPCI. Dr. Baum has served as editor of
Fetzer Institute and the National Institute on Aging. Work two scientific journals, as PI on several research grants,
supported by the Charles A. Dana Foundation has exam­ and as Director of a Center of Excellence for Biobehavioral
ined proinflammatory cytokines as a basis for associations Research on Breast Cancer (funded by the DOD). He has
between depressive symptoms and coronary disease. He authored or coauthored more than 250 refereed jour­
has published in Health Psychology, Psychosomatic Medicine, nal articles, books, book chapters, and abstracts and has
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychophysiology, chaired and served on several NIH, NSF, and DOD study
American Journal of Cardiology, and Journal of Psychosomatic sections. His research addresses a range of issues related
Research. He has also edited a book, Self, Social Identity, to stress and disease progression as well as clinical trials
and Physical Health: Interdisciplinary Explorations (Oxford and health disparities.
University Press, 1999). He has served as a member of
the Health Behavior and Prevention Study Section of
the NIMH and as Associate Editor of Health Psychology.
He has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied
Social Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Annals of
Behavioral Medicine, Stress and Health, and Psychosomatic
Medicine. He is a Fellow of APA, APS, and SBM, and has
received the Rutgers University Award for Excellence in
Graduate Teaching.
The Handbook of
Stress Science:
Biology, Psychology, and Health
Editors
Richard J. Contrada, PhD
Andrew Baum, PhD
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To my parents, Pasquale and Theresa Contrada, for many years of
support and encouragement.
–RJC
To the memory of Jerome E. Singer, a friend, colleague, and mentor.
Jerry’s intellect shone brightly and illuminated many dark corners,
leading the way for others.
–RJC and AB

Contents
In Memoriam  ix 9. Stress and Support Processes  111
Bert N. Uchino and Wendy Birmingham
Contributors  xi
10. Social Network Functions and Health  123
Foreword  xvii
Karen S. Rook, Kristin J. August, and Dara H. Sorkin
Preface  xxi
11.  Stress and the Workplace:
10 Years of Science, 1997–2007  137
1. Stress, Adaptation, and Health  1
Alankrita Pandey, James Campbell Quick,
Richard J. Contrada
Ana Maria Rossi, Debra L. Nelson, and Wayne Martin
12.  The Challenge of Stress in Modern
SECTION I: BIOLOGY
Organizations  151
Ashley Weinberg and Cary Cooper
2.   Regulation of the Hypothalamo–Pituitary–Adrenal
Axis, Chronic Stress, and Energy: 13. Racism as a Psychosocial Stressor  167
The Role of Brain Networks  11 Elizabeth Brondolo, Nisha Brady ver Halen,
Mary F. Dallman and Dirk Hellhammer Daniel Libby, and Melissa Pencille
3. The Cardiovascular System  37 14. Socioeconomic Status and Stress  185
Matthew M. Burg and Thomas G. Pickering Tarani Chandola and Michael G. Marmot
4.   Effects of Stress on Immune Function:
Implications for Immunoprotection and SECTION III: PSYCHOLOGY
Immunopathology  47
Firdaus S. Dhabhar
15.  The Role of Appraisal and Emotion in
Coping and Adaptation  195
5.   Behavioral, Emotional, and Cognitive
Craig A. Smith and Leslie D. Kirby
Sequelae of Immune System Activation  65
Joanne M. Hash-Converse and
16.  The Dynamics of Emotion in
Alexander W. Kusnecov
Adaptation to Stress  209
Patrick H. Finan, Alex J. Zautra, and Rebecca Wershba
6.   Genetic Epidemiology of Stress and
Gene by Stress Interaction  77 17. Coping  221
Jeanne M. McCaffery Charles S. Carver
7.   The Molecular Biology of Stress: 18.  Personality and Stress: Individual Differences
Cellular Defense, Immune Response, in Exposure, Reactivity, Recovery, and
and Aging  87 Restoration  231
Andrew Baum, Kara Lorduy, and Frank J. Jenkins Paula G. Williams, Timothy W. Smith,
Heather E. Gunn, and Bert N. Uchino
SECTION II: SOCIAL CONTEXT 19.  Gender: Its Relationship to Stressor Exposure,
Cognitive Appraisal/Coping Processes, Stress
8.   Social Responses to Stress: Responses, and Health Outcomes  247
The Tend-and-Befriend Model  101 Mary C. Davis, Mary H. Burleson, and
Shelley E. Taylor and Sarah L. Master Denise M. Kruszewski
viii n Contents
20. Stress, Coping, and Adult Development  263 34.  Stress Reduction in Chronically Ill Patients  475
Carolyn M. Aldwin and Loriena Yancura Arthur M. Nezu, Christine Maguth Nezu, and
Melissa S. Xanthopoulos
SECTION IV: BEHAVIORS AND MENTAL AND 35. Stress and Chronic Disease Management  487
PHYSICAL HEALTH OUTCOMES Melissa M. Garrido, Joanne M. Hash-Converse,
Howard Leventhal, and Elaine A. Leventhal
21. Effects of Stress on Eating Behavior  275
Daryl B. O’Connor and Mark Conner SECTION V: RESEARCH METHODS,
TOOLS, AND STRATEGIES
22. Stress and Drug Use  287
Neil E. Grunberg, Sarah Shafer Berger, and
Kristen R. Hamilton 36.  Acute Stress Responses in the
Psychophysiological Laboratory  501
23. Exercise and Stress Reduction  301
William Gerin
Teresa M. Edenfield and James A. Blumenthal
37.  Cardiovascular Measures in Stress
24.  Stress in Pregnancy: Empirical Evidence
Research: Methodological, Analytic, and
and Theoretical Issues to Guide
Inferential Issues  515
Interdisciplinary Research  321
Israel C. Christie, J. Richard Jennings, and
Christine Dunkel Schetter and Laura M. Glynn
Victoria B. Egizio
25. Stress and Depression  345
David A. Gutman and Charles B. Nemeroff 38. Neuroendocrine Measures  531
Ulf Lundberg
26.  Stressors and Mental Health Problems in
Childhood and Adolescence  359 39.  Neuroimaging Methods in Human
Kathryn E. Grant, Susan D. McMahon, Stress Science  543
Sophia N. Duffy, Jeremy J. Taylor, and Peter J. Gianaros and Mary-Frances O’Connor
Bruce E. Compas
40.  Interview Assessment of Stressor
27. Physical Health Outcomes of Trauma  373 Exposure  565
Angela Liegey Dougall and Jeffrey N. Swanson Barbara Anderson, Elaine Wethington, and
Thomas W. Kamarck
28.  Stress and the Heart: Psychosocial Stress
and Coronary Heart Disease  385 41.  Combining Checklist and Interview
Nadine S. Bekkouche, Sari Holmes,
Approaches for Assessing Daily Stressors:
Kerry S. Whittaker, and David S. Krantz
The Daily Inventory of Stressful
29. Stress and Cardiometabolic Syndrome  399 Events  583
Larry Brooks, Philip McCabe, and David M. Almeida, Robert S. Stawski, and
Neil Schneiderman Kelly E. Cichy
30. Stress and the Cancers  411 42.  Measuring Psychosocial Stress Using Ecological
Andrew Baum, Lara A. Trevino, and Momentary Assessment Methods  597
Angela Liegey Dougall Thomas W. Kamarck, Saul Shiffman, and
Elaine Wethington
31.  Stress and Susceptibility to
Infectious Disease  425 43. Multilevel Analysis of Stress  619
Anette Fischer Pedersen, Dana Howard Bovbjerg, Greg J. Norman, A. Courtney DeVries,
and Robert Zachariae John T. Cacioppo, and Gary G. Berntson
32. Effects of Stress on Health in HIV/AIDS  447
Giselle K. Perez, Dean G. Cruess, and Name Index  635
Seth C. Kalichman
Subject Index  665
33. Pain: The Biopsychosocial Perspective  461
Robert J. Gatchel, Krista Howard, and Rob Haggard Color Insert  between 344 & 345
In Memoriam
Thomas G. Pickering
(1940–2009)
Thomas G. Pickering, profes­ His record of scholarship and clinical expertise is accom­
sor of medicine and director panied by his remarkable mentorship of younger clinical
of the Center for Behavioral investigators now working in the field around the world.
Cardiovascular Health at A native of England, Dr. Pickering received his MA
Columbia University, died May degree from Trinity College of Cambridge University,
14, 2009, after a valiant battle his medical doctorate from Middlesex Hospital Medical
against cancer, during the time School in London, and his D. Phil. degree from Linacre
in which he was working on his College of Oxford University. Before taking a position at
contribution to this Handbook. Columbia, he had appointments at Mount Sinai Medical
Dr. Pickering’s legacy was his Center, Cornell and New York Hospital, and Rockefeller
national and international lead­ University.
ership in research and patient Among the many awards he received are these recent
care in hypertension and the behavioral aspects of ones: the Alvin P. Shapiro Award from the American
hypertension and heart disease. He published widely Psychosomatic Society, in recognition of the importance
in the field and held many leadership positions, includ­ and sophistication of his research, and the Franz Volhard
ing serving as president of the Society of Behavioral Award and Lectureship from the International Society of
Medicine, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Hypertension. The Volhard Award is given biennially to
Research, and the American Society of Hypertension’s honor an individual whose research has garnered endur­
eastern regional chapter. He coined the term “white­ ing interest. Dr. Pickering’s father, Sir George Pickering,
coat hypertension” to describe patients whose blood MD, received the award in 1974.
pressure is elevated in the doctor’s office but normal While recognizing Dr. Pickering’s professional contri­
otherwise, and he published the first editorial describ­ butions, we do not overlook the personal impact he had
ing “masked hypertension,” the opposite phenomenon. on those who knew him. The editors and fellow contribu­
His commitment to behavioral medicine stemmed from tors of this volume extend our sincerest condolences to
his belief that much of cardiovascular disease arises his family—his wife, Janet, sons Robert and William, and
from psychosocial factors and is potentially preventable their families—and to his many colleagues, students, and
or treatable by modifying these factors. patients.