The Stress Buffering Hypothesis And Its Essence
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Physician and epidemiologist John Cassel and psychiatrist Sidney Cobb formally proposed the stress buffering hypothesis in 1976.Both the researchers argued upon the idea that individuals with strong social bonds were protected from the potential pathogenic effects of stress generating events.Cassel thought that the when an individual received a bewildering or an absent feedback from the social environment,then this acted as...
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