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There exists a long tradition of studying the impact of life events and chronic life stress on the onset of mental (and/or physical) illness. More recently the focus of interest within this area has drifted towards two main problems (for a short overview, see Dohrenwend and Dohrenwend 1981).
The Upper Bavarian Restudy was supported by the German Research Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) within Special Research Division 116 (Psychiatric Epidemiology).
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Fichter, M.M., Koch, HJ., Rehm, J., Weyerer, S. (1987). Adversity and the Risk of Mental Illness: Preliminary Results of the Upper Bavarian Restudy. In: Angermeyer, M.C. (eds) From Social Class to Social Stress. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52057-0_8
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