Cardiovascular and endocrine responses to experimental stress: effects of mental effort and controllability

ML Peters, GLR Godaert, RE Ballieux… - …, 1998 - Elsevier
The objective of the study was to investigate the unique and interactive effects of the
controllability of a task and mental effort required by that task on cardiovascular and endocrine …

Effect of dehydroepiandrosterone administration on fatigue, well-being, and functioning in women with primary Sjögren syndrome: a randomised controlled trial

A Hartkamp, R Geenen, GLR Godaert… - Annals of the …, 2008 - ard.bmj.com
Objective: Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) administration has been reported to improve
fatigue, psychological distress, and physical disability. These are common features of primary …

The validity and reliability of the Dutch Effort–Reward Imbalance Questionnaire.

…, T Vrijkotte, NH Plomp, GLR Godaert - … of occupational health …, 2000 - psycnet.apa.org
The reliability and validity of the Effort–Reward Imbalance Questionnaire were tested in 775
blue-and white-collar workers in the Netherlands. Cronbach's alpha revealed sufficient …

Internal, powerful others and chance locus of control: Relationships with personality, coping, stress and health

JF Brosschot, WA Gebhardt, GLR Godaert - Personality and individual …, 1994 - Elsevier
In this paper, the relationship was studied between the internal, powerful others and chance
(IPC)-scales and a range of other psychological characteristics, self-reported life stress and …

Cortisol secretion throughout the day, perceptions of the work environment, and negative affect,

…, CJM Maas, TF Meijman, GLR Godaert - Annals of Behavioral …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The effects of explanatory variables derived from a work stress model (the effort-reward
imbalance model) on salivary cortisol were assessed. A multilevel analysis was used to …

Cardiovascular and immune responses to acute psychological stress in young and old women: a meta-analysis

…, GE Miller, KA Matthews, GLR Godaert… - Psychosomatic …, 1998 - journals.lww.com
Objective To describe the relationships between cardiovascular and natural killer (NK) cell
number changes on acute psychological stress in women. Method Data from eight different …

Immune responses to experimental stress: effects of mental effort and uncontrollability

ML Peters, GLR Godaert, RE Ballieux… - Psychosomatic …, 1999 - journals.lww.com
Objective Two important determinants of physiological stress responses have been identified,
uncontrollability of the stressor and amount of effort involved in coping with the stressor. In …

Experimental stress and immunological reactivity: a closer look at perceived uncontrollability

JF Brosschot, GLR Godaert, RJ Benschop… - Psychosomatic …, 1998 - journals.lww.com
Objective Although stressor uncontrollability has been shown to suppress immune responses
in animals and for human subjects, the results have been inconsistent. We reanalyzed …

Serum cytokine levels related to multiple dimensions of fatigue in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome

…, R Geenen, M Bijl, AA Kruize, GLR Godaert… - Annals of the …, 2004 - ard.bmj.com
Objective: To test whether serum levels of selected cytokines relate to different dimensions
of fatigue in patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS). Methods: Sixty female patients …

Moderation of physiological stress responses by personality traits and daily hassles: less flexibility of immune system responses

ML Peters, GLR Godaert, RE Ballieux, CJ Heijnen - Biological Psychology, 2003 - Elsevier
Previously we demonstrated that stressors varying on the dimension of mental effort and
controllability have distinctive effects on cardiovascular, endocrine and immune system …