Stress : A Brief History


Cary L. Cooper
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2008.
Omfang
1 online resource (162 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 FROM EARLY BEGINNINGS TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Introduction; Hooke's Law and the Engineering Analogy; The Eighteenth Century and Beyond; Summary: Themes from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; CHAPTER 2 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE EARLY YEARS; Introduction; The Emergence of the School of Functionalism; Fatigue and Mental Hygiene; Psychosomatic Medicine and the Contribution of Walter Cannon; Hans Selye; The Work of Harold Wolff; Summary; CHAPTER 3 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: FROM THE 1950s TO RICHARD LAZARUS; Introduction: Stress in the 1950s and 1960s. - CHAPTER 6 WHAT DO WE MEAN BY STRESS: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTUREIntroduction; What Do We Mean By Stress?; From the Past to the Future; How Does History Add to Our Understanding of Stress; Searching for the Organizing Concept of the Future; Distinguishing between Description and Meaning; Why Study Stress? Fulfilling Our Moral Responsibility; Summary; References; Index. - Lazarus and the Process View of CopingWays of Coping Questionnaire; Lazarus and Emotions; Summary; CHAPTER 5 WORK STRESS AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY; Introduction; Work Stress; Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity, and the Search for Causes of Work Stress; Beyond Role Conflict, Ambiguity, and Overload; Early Research Frameworks and Identifying Strains; Towards and Integrated Model of Work Stress; Work Stress and Coping; From Coping to the Self-Help Years to Stress Management; Occupational Health Psychology; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Summary. - Stressful Life EventsThe Social Readjustment Scale; Daily Hassles and Uplifts and the Debate that Followed; The Debate: Critical Life Events versus Hassles and Uplifts; Personality and Type A Behavior Patterns; Towards the Study of Individual Differences; A Return to the 1950s and 1960s and a Change in Focus; The History of Stress in Sweden; The Origins of Organizational Psychology; Summary; CHAPTER 4 THE WORK OF RICHARD LAZARUS; Introduction; The Beginnings; The Berkeley Stress and Coping Project; A Historical Look at Appraisal; The Nature of Appraisals and the Debate that Followed. - Stress: A Brief History is a lively, accessible, and detailed examination of the origins of the field of stress research. First concise, accessible, academically grounded book on the origins of the concept of stress. Explores different theories and models of stress such as the psychosomatic approach, homeostasis, and general adaptation syndrome. Discusses the work and intriguing contributions of key researchers in the field such as Walter Cannon, Hans Selye, Harold Wolff, and Richard Lazarus. Explains the origins of key concepts in stress such as
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