Psychosomatic symptoms and transactional mediational theory of stress

The aim of this paper is to integrate the study of psychosomatic symptoms into transactional mediational theory. An explanatory model of psychosomatic symptoms, based on the Lazarus transactional mediational theory of stress is presented. Additionally, the analysis of studies carried out for the purpose of valuing or to explain psychosomatic symptoms in Sandin s approaches to stress are included. Finally we consider other variables that have been related to psychosomatic symptoms.