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Dynamics of Stress [electronic resource] : Physiological, Psychological and Social Perspectives / edited by Mortimer H. Appley, Richard A. Trumbull.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Springer Series on Stress and CopingPublisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1986Edition: 1st ed. 1986Description: XVIII, 342 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781468451221
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 612.8 23
LOC classification:
  • QP360-360.7
Online resources:
Contents:
I. Introduction -- 1 Development of the Stress Concept -- II. Some Theoretical Approaches -- 2 A Conceptual Model for the Examination of Stress Dynamics -- 3 Specificity and Stress Research -- 4 Cognitive Theories of Stress and the Issue of Circularity -- 5 Behavior Economics as an Approach to Stress Theory -- III. Psychophysiological Considerations -- 6 A Psychobiological Framework for Research on Human Stress and Coping -- 7 Theoretical and Empirical Considerations in the Theory of Stress from a Psychophysiological Point of View -- 8 Ergopsychometric Testing: Predicting and Actualizing Optimum Performance under Load -- 9 Voice, Stress, and Emotion -- IV. Coping and Stress -- 10 Coping as a Moderator and Mediator between Stress at Work and Psychosomatic Complaints -- 11 Coping with Stress: Dispositions, Strategies, and the Problem of Measurement -- 12 A Self-Presentational View of Coping with Stress -- V. Psychosocial Aspects of Stress -- 13 Social Support and Depression -- 14 Note on a Program of Research on Alternative Social Psychological Models of Relationships between Life Stress and Psychopathology -- 15 The Effect of Hope on Coping with Stress -- VI. Overview -- 16 Dynamics of Stress and Its Control -- Author Index.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: It was our privilege, some twenty years ago, to assemble a group of Canadian and American investigators to examine the status of research in the then newly burgeoning field of psychological stress (Appley & Trumbull, 1967). As noted, in Chapter 1 of the present volume, there has been rapid development of the area since then. The conference on which the current volume is based was designed to do three things: 1. to further update the field, 2. to bring European and other perspectives to the subject, and 3. to focus on the status of theory of stress. We believe the reader will agree that all three objectives were accom­ plished, though in so vast and active a field, one can never be totally satisfied. The authors included in this volume are among the leading inves­ tigators in the field. They represent active research centers and programs in Austria, East and West Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Sweden, and the United States. Their chapters make contributions to stress theory and methodology, inform us meaningfully of the perspectives of the various research programs they represent, and provide, collectively, a description of the dynamics of the stress process as currently emerging.
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I. Introduction -- 1 Development of the Stress Concept -- II. Some Theoretical Approaches -- 2 A Conceptual Model for the Examination of Stress Dynamics -- 3 Specificity and Stress Research -- 4 Cognitive Theories of Stress and the Issue of Circularity -- 5 Behavior Economics as an Approach to Stress Theory -- III. Psychophysiological Considerations -- 6 A Psychobiological Framework for Research on Human Stress and Coping -- 7 Theoretical and Empirical Considerations in the Theory of Stress from a Psychophysiological Point of View -- 8 Ergopsychometric Testing: Predicting and Actualizing Optimum Performance under Load -- 9 Voice, Stress, and Emotion -- IV. Coping and Stress -- 10 Coping as a Moderator and Mediator between Stress at Work and Psychosomatic Complaints -- 11 Coping with Stress: Dispositions, Strategies, and the Problem of Measurement -- 12 A Self-Presentational View of Coping with Stress -- V. Psychosocial Aspects of Stress -- 13 Social Support and Depression -- 14 Note on a Program of Research on Alternative Social Psychological Models of Relationships between Life Stress and Psychopathology -- 15 The Effect of Hope on Coping with Stress -- VI. Overview -- 16 Dynamics of Stress and Its Control -- Author Index.

It was our privilege, some twenty years ago, to assemble a group of Canadian and American investigators to examine the status of research in the then newly burgeoning field of psychological stress (Appley & Trumbull, 1967). As noted, in Chapter 1 of the present volume, there has been rapid development of the area since then. The conference on which the current volume is based was designed to do three things: 1. to further update the field, 2. to bring European and other perspectives to the subject, and 3. to focus on the status of theory of stress. We believe the reader will agree that all three objectives were accom­ plished, though in so vast and active a field, one can never be totally satisfied. The authors included in this volume are among the leading inves­ tigators in the field. They represent active research centers and programs in Austria, East and West Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Sweden, and the United States. Their chapters make contributions to stress theory and methodology, inform us meaningfully of the perspectives of the various research programs they represent, and provide, collectively, a description of the dynamics of the stress process as currently emerging.

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