The Psychosocial Context of Financial Stress: Implications for Inflammation and Psychological Health.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Psychological distress may contribute to chronic activation of acute-phase inflammation. The current study investigated how financial stressors influence psychosocial functioning and inflammation. This study examined a) the direct relations between financial stress and inflammation; b) whether the relationships between financial stress and inflammation are mediated in part by negative interpersonal events, psychological distress, and psychological well-being; and c) whether social standing in one's community moderates the relations between financial stress and psychological distress, psychological well-being, and markers of inflammation (interleukin-6 [IL-6] and C-reactive protein).

Methods

Stressful financial and interpersonal events over the previous year, percei

SUBMITTER: Sturgeon JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4738080 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature