Wives' and Husbands' Cortisol Reactivity to Proximal and Distal Dimensions of Couple Conflict.
Poor marital quality has been linked repeatedly to spouses' health problems, with alterations to physiological stress response systems, such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical ( HPA) axis, as one putative mechanism. This study assessed wives' and husbands' HPA axis (i.e., cortisol) reactiv...
| Publicado en: | Family Process Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 555 - 570 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2013
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