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Not stress is dangerous, but the reaction to it

14.11.2012

Contrary to popular belief, stress is not the cause of health problems. A study by researchers at Pennsylvania State University shows that responding to current events can help predict chronic disease 10 years into the future.

Perhaps, at first glance, the conclusion seems banal, but in fact, the discovery of American scientists is very unexpected and contradicts generally accepted views. After all, it turns out that, for example, with the same huge amount of work, a grumpy, suffering from a sense of injustice, etc. a person will subsequently have more health problems than a person who is not bothered by a huge amount of work.

Scientists conducted a large-scale study involving 2000 people. Every evening for eight days, participants in the experiment spoke in detail about what had happened to them in the previous 24 hours. In particular, special attention was paid to the use of time, mood, health, productivity and stressful events such as traffic jams, quarrels, caring for a sick child, etc. During the experiment, the amount of the stress hormone cortisol was controlled.

The scientists then analyzed the information and linked it to a large MIDUS dataset (demographic information, chronic disease statistics, etc.). The nature of people was also taken into account - according to pages on social networks and questionnaires. The first such experiment took place in 1995, the second - 10 years later, and now scientists were able to compare the daily life of a person, the events that happened to him, with long-term health consequences.

It also found that young people experience stress more often than older people. People with higher cognitive ability have more stress than people with lower cognitive ability, similarly, people with higher levels of education experience more stress than people with lower levels of education.

Of particular interest is the practice of dealing with stress, which, as it turned out, is much more important than the amount of stress itself. Here the situation is reversed: older people deal with stress worse and react to it more severely. Apparently, this is due to the fact that at this stage of life there is little stress, and the practice of dealing with it has been lost (recall that the study was conducted in the USA). In turn, young people experience stress more often and cope with it more easily. The same is true for more intellectually developed people: despite more stress, they cope better with it than people with low cognitive abilities and a low level of education.

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