cycling to and from work (‘active commuting’) as an alternative to driving. Predominantly quantitative epidemiological studies … aimed to depart from narrow behavioural approaches to travel and investigate the social context of commuting with … qualitative social research methods. Within a social practice theory framework, we explored how people describe their commuting …

commuting in Cambridge, UK. Our analyses involved integrating self-reported questionnaire data from 1142 participants in the … Commuting and Health in Cambridge study (collected in 2009) and in-depth interviews with 50 participants (collected 2009 … illness. Yet car commuting was also subject to constraints, with rush hour traffic pushing drivers to start work earlier and …

Work stress is recognized globally as a social determinant of worker health. Therefore we explored whether work stress … representation to address and implement policies for psychosocial risk factors for work stress, bullying and violence. Results …

During the latter part of the 20th century, work stress became an important societal issue and a huge amount of … scientific attention went to studying it. This paper examines the process of formulating and defining the concept of work stress …, critical psychology, and the anthropology of knowledge. We argue that work stress as a life-structuring concept gained ground …

discrimination, and perceived stress mediate or moderate the relationship, and whether results differ by primary language used at … respondents who speak English. Social support, perceived discrimination, and perceived stress mediate the Hispanic composition …–depressive symptoms relationship. In addition, discrimination and stress moderate the relationship between Hispanic composition and …

such, men should be especially likely to exhibit a stress response to loss of social influence in the presence of other men …. This study assesses whether men who lose social influence exhibit more of a stress response than men who gain social … tradition. Cortisol is used as a measure of stress response because it is known to increase in response to loss of social esteem …

, or cumulative abuse) affects this risk; and (3) the extent to which adult socioeconomic status (SES), maladaptive stress … MetS. Adult SES partially explains the association between childhood abuse and MetS. Maladaptive stress responses and … for men and women, while stress-induced eating was a significant pathway for women only. Our findings suggest that the …

. Some studies support the idea that women and men respond to stress in different ways, but most do not. Numerous studies …

Limited research has examined the associations of stress, social support, and depression among mothers with young … relationships among stress, social support, and depressive symptoms in a national sample of low-income urban American women with … depressed as a function of stress-related risk factors, social support factors, and sociodemographic variables. The rate of …