PMID- 7451955
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19810317
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0097-840X (Print)
IS  - 0097-840X (Linking)
VI  - 6
IP  - 4
DP  - 1980 Dec
TI  - Power motivation, stress and physical illness.
PG  - 6-15
AB  - College students reporting a large number of life change events in the past six 
      months also reported significantly more frequent and more severe instances of 
      physical illness and more affective symptoms in the same time period. These 
      relationships, however, were modified in an interesting way by type of life 
      change and by individual differences. Life change events were classified as 
      involving power, affiliative or other stresses. Individuals scoring high in the 
      need for Power (n Power), in inhibition, and in the number of power stresses (HHH 
      subjects), reported more severe physical illness and affective symptoms than all 
      other subjects or, in particular, subjects low in n Power, power stress and 
      inhibition (LLL subjects). Individuals scoring high in Power and high in either 
      inhibition or power stress also reported significantly more severe physical 
      illness than other subjects. Among subjects high in inhibition, affiliative 
      stress in combination with high n Power was associated with more severe physical 
      illness, but, among subjects low in inhibition, affiliative stress in combination 
      with high n Affiliation was associated with more physical illness. Affiliative 
      stress was unrelated to affective symptoms. Other stress was unrelated either 
      alone or in combination with other variable to physical illness or affective 
      symptoms. The findings are interpreted as consistent with the hypothesis that 
      subjects in the HHH category compared with other subjects are characterized by 
      chronically high sympathetic activity which has immunosuppressive effects, making 
      them more illness prone.
FAU - McClelland, D C
AU  - McClelland DC
FAU - Jemmott, J B 3rd
AU  - Jemmott JB 3rd
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Human Stress
JT  - Journal of human stress
JID - 7602457
SB  - IM
MH  - Affective Symptoms/psychology
MH  - Disease/*psychology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Inhibition, Psychological
MH  - Interpersonal Relations
MH  - *Life Change Events
MH  - Male
MH  - *Motivation
MH  - *Social Dominance
MH  - Sympathetic Nervous System/physiopathology
EDAT- 1980/12/01 00:00
MHDA- 1980/12/01 00:01
CRDT- 1980/12/01 00:00
PHST- 1980/12/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1980/12/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1980/12/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/0097840X.1980.9936101 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Human Stress. 1980 Dec;6(4):6-15. doi: 10.1080/0097840X.1980.9936101.