title: [The biopsychosocial model of adjustment of the rheumatoid arthritis as chronic illness].
abstract: Through biopsychosocial model, empirical research about rheumatoid arthritis highlights the interdependence among psychological factors (cognitive, behavioural and emotional ones), psychopatological outcomes (measured as anxiety and depression), physical outcomes (showed by self-reported pain and disability) and physiological ones (measured by activation of immune and neuroendocrine system indexes) to originate psychological and physical adjustment to illness.
authors.affiliation: Facoltà di Psicologia, Università, Torino. valentina.congedo@gmail.com
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Congedo
authors.forename: Cesare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Albasi
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological