Reducing daily stress: Breaking a habit

With this thesis the PhD-candidate aims to enrich the body of evidence concerning the relation between stress and health, and the mediating role of (un)conscious perseverative cognitions (which is captured in the extended perseverative cognition hypothesis). The main aim of this thesis was to find direct evidence for the extended PC hypothesis in real life. She examined whether reducing (un)conscious perseverative cognitions, or worry, improved stress-related physiological activity and subjective health complaints.Financial support for the studies reported in this dissertation was provided by a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw: nr. 40-00812-98-11029)FSW - Self-regulation models for health behavior and psychopathology - ou