Sökning: "Mental stress"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 295 avhandlingar innehållade orden Mental stress.
1. Migration, Stress and Mental Ill Health : Post-migration Factors and Experiences in the Swedish Context
Sammanfattning : This predominantly empirical dissertation deals with how socio-economic living conditions and immigrant-specific factors can be linked to immigrants’ mental ill health. It is also explored how cultural representations can affect stress and whether mental ill health is expressed differently among immigrants from Iraq and Iran than among individuals of Nordic origin. LÄS MER
2. Mental Stress and Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation
Sammanfattning : The endothelium plays an important part in blood flow regulation by producing the vasodilatory substance nitric oxide (NO). Various studies have shown that commonly accepted risk factors for coronary heart disease, such as hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, smoking and mental stress impair endothelium-derived vasodilation by the NO-pathway. LÄS MER
3. Problemet utan namn? : Neuroser, stress och kön i Sverige från 1950 till 1980
Sammanfattning : Focusing on Sweden between 1950 and 1980, this doctoral dissertation analyzes and problematizes the process in which a discourse about neurosis and nervous troubles gradually evolved into a discourse about stress. The thesis aims to show how the medical and general discussion about diffuse or vague symptoms transformed and rearticulated ideas and views on society and man, citizenship, gender roles, and medicine. LÄS MER
4. Psychophysiological reactions to experimental stress : relations to pain sensitivity, position sense and stress perception
Sammanfattning : Stress and monotonous work contribute substantially to the development of chronic musculoskeletal disorders. Yet, the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the process, particularly the involvement of autonomic regulation, remain unclear. LÄS MER
5. Close to the edge : discursive, gendered and embodied stress in modern youth
Sammanfattning : Background Adolescent subjective health and mental problems have become a public health concern not only in Sweden but worldwide. The overall aim of this thesis is to deepen and widen the understanding of young peoples’ subjective health, psychosomatic and stress-related problems. LÄS MER