All Health Psychology

Groups the studies whose central finding concerns how psychological factors such as chronic stress, personality or social status contribute to physical illness and health outcomes. Belongs here: the Whitehall Studies, which linked civil servants' position in an occupational hierarchy to their long-term risk of disease; the Western Collaborative Group Study, which linked a hostile, time-pressured personality pattern to coronary heart disease; and Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome Experiments, which established the body's general physiological response to prolonged stress. A study of stress or personality without a physical health outcome as its central finding is filed under a different branch.