Mediating Influences of Social Support on Stress at Three Mile Island

Raymond Fleming; Andrew Baum; Martha M. Gisriel; Robert J. Gatchel

doi:10.1080/0097840X.1982.9936110

Mediating Influences of Social Support on Stress at Three Mile Island

Raymond Fleming, Andrew Baum, Martha M. Gisriel, Robert J. Gatchel

Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

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Abstract

Symptom reporting, task performance, and urinary catecholamine excretion were studied in a group of people living near the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant and in control populations. More than a year after the accident, living near the damaged reactor was associated with elevations in all indices of stress compared with control levels. Social support mediated these stress indices such that higher levels were associated with fewer psychological and behavioral symptoms of stress. Biochemical measures showed a different pattern of results.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-23
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Human Stress
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1982.9936110
State	Published - Sep 1982

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