University of Leeds psychologists report that stress appraisal and perceived stress act as key conduits linking childhood trauma to adult depression, anxiety, defeat, and entrapment. Childhood trauma ...

Minority stress describes the stressful situations individuals may encounter due to their ethnicity, race, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Everyone experiences stress from time to time.

“There is nothing as practical as a good theory” was Kurt Lewin’s (1943) way of asserting the value of theory in guiding research that addresses broad social problems. But psychological theory also ...

The way our romantic partners perceive stress impacts our own behaviors and feelings in ways we may not even realize. A recent study conducted at the University of Ohio and published in Affective ...