@article{680,
  keywords = {Psychoneuroimmunology, Cellular immune response, Stress, Coping, Personality},
  author = {Adela Fusté-Escolano and José Ruiz-Rodríguez},
  title = {Relationship between immune cell response, self-perceived stress, and coping strategies},
  abstract = {The main aim of this exploratory study is to scrutinize the relationship between biologically- based personality dimensions, mood as selfperception of a state of arousal, coping strategies, and cellular immune response measured by a delayed hypersensitivity skin test. Several questionnaires for testing their basic personality features, their coping strategies, and their self-perceived state of arousal were administered to a sample of 23 students. The magnitude of the inflammarory triggered by Dinitroclorobenzene was also registered as well. Results show a lack of relationship between personality dimensions and inflammatory response. In addition, there is a negative relationship between coping strategies, as “seeking social support” and “planning a response”, and the degree of swelling of the inflammatory response. These results would be interpreted in terms of a better control of inflammatory mechanisms by non-immunological processes. Such results may open future pathways for new researches in other to a better study of the relationship between coping strategies and immune system.},
  year = {2000},
  journal = {Ansiedad y Estrés},
  volume = {6},
  number = {2-3},
  pages = {169-189},
  month = {07/2000},
  publisher = {Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés},
  issn = {1134-7937},
  isbn = {2174-0437},
}