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Do Chronic Stressors Lead to Physiological Dysregulation? Testing the Theory of Allostatic Load

From the Department of Demography (D.A.G.), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California; Office of Population Research (N.G.), Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Center for Population and Health Survey Research (Y.-L.C.), Department of Health, Taiwan; Center for Population and Health (M.W.), Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

View larger version (8K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. A theoretical model linking chronic stressors and health. Dashed arrows indicate factors that moderate the relationship between stressors and perceived stress.