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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine Volume 2012, Article ID 151865, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/151865 Research Article Association of Perceived Stress with Stressful Life Events, Lifestyle and Sociodemographic Factors: A Large-Scale Community-Based Study Using Logistic Quantile Regression Awat Feizi,1 Roqayeh Aliyari,1 and Hamidreza Roohafza2 1 Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan 8174675731, Iran 2 Mental Health Department, Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to Awat Feizi, awat feiz@hlth.mui.ac.ir Received 12 May 2012; Revised 16 August 2012; Accepted 3 September 2012 Academic Editor: Yoram Louzoun Copyright © 2012 Awat Feizi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective. The present paper aimed at investigating the association between perceived stress and major life events stressors in Iranian general population. Methods. In a cross-sectional large-scale community-based study, 4583 people aged 19 and older, living in Isfahan, Iran, were investigated. Logistic quantile regression was used for modeling perceived stress, measured by GHQ questionnaire, as the bounded outcome (dependent), variable, and as a function of most important stressful life events, as the predictor variables, controlling for major lifestyle and sociodemographic factors. This model provides empirical evidence of the predictors’ effects heterogeneity depending on individual location on the distribution of perceived stre