Mediación moderada, sensibilidad emocional y afrontamiento en el contexto del estrés

Abstract

The present paper describes a theoretical proposal of the stress-illness relat
ionship, called the moderated
mediation model, in which the intervention of emotional sensitivity
and coping in such relationships are
established, with the former acting as moderating variable and the latter as medi
ating variable of the model. The
proposal was subjected to an exhaustive review of literature over the last 15
years on the subject of moderating
and mediating variables in the context of stress, and the relevance of their d
ifferentiation when integrated in
explanatory models. Key words such as moderation, mediation and stress
were used as search criteria in
the bibliographical data bases. Likewise, considerable empirical evidence is off
ered regarding the influence
of emotional sensitivity and coping in the stress-illness relationsh
ip in different contexts and populations. The
moderated mediation model is being presented as a theoretical proposal to be
empirically validated.