Given its association with well-being in highly stressful situations [ 22], coping flexibility may foster resilience in low SES individuals who experience heightened stress levels.
Nine of ten participants noted they would seek help from colleagues when in the field if they were experiencing heightened stress.
Pre-retirees also may be experiencing heightened stress due to a fear of the unknown.
Our proposition stems from the social stress theory, which postulates that individuals lower in SES face numerous and largely uncontrollable stressful experiences but lack the external resources necessary to handle their heightened stress levels [ 17].
More recently it was found that human gender disparity heightened stress levels in laboratory rodents affecting their analgesic responses [ 46].
That forces travellers to pass through customs and security twice, which disrupts slumber time, heightens stress levels, and might necessitate visa purchases.
Individuals with high hostility, anger, and type A characteristics may perceive their environment as threatening and experience heightened stress and hassles.
Parents of children with developmental disabilities experience heightened stress, [ 11, 17], impaired mental health [ 18], sense of devaluation and self-blame [ 19], impaired physical functioning, tiredness or exhaustion [ 20, 21].
As someone who commutes from Weston to New York, however, he did admit to experiencing heightened family stress.
Last year, Coates and colleagues reported that traders who experienced heightened testosterone levels in the morning made more money than traders who did not (ScienceNOW, 14 April, 2008).
Even in the absence of PQ, animals in this treatment likely experienced heightened oxidative stress (see Methods).
