| Description |
xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
A Wiley-Interscience publication |
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Wiley-Interscience publication.
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| Contents |
A brief historical introduction to research on stressful life events / barbara Snell Dohrenwend and Bruce P. Dohrenwend -- 1. Research programs on relationships between stressful life events and episodes of physical illness: The effect of exposure to culture change, social change, and changes in interpersonal relationships on health / Lawrence B. Hinkle, Jr. ; Life change and illness susceptibility / Thomas H. Holmes and Minoru Masuda ; The pathway between subjects' recent life changes and their near-future illness reports : representative results and methodological issues / Richard H. Rahe ; Discussion of research programs on relations bewteen stressful life events and episodes of phyical illness / David Mechanic -- 2. Clinical rsearch on relations between stressful life events and particular types of physical and psychiatric disorder: Life events before and after the onset of a premature myocardial infarction / Töres Theorell ; Personal catastrophe and depression : a consideration of the subject with respect to medically ill adolescents, and a requiem for retrospecvtive life-event studies / Richard W. Hudgens ; Life stress and psychiatric disorder : applications of the clinical approach / E.S. Paykel ; A model of life events and their consequences / Sidney Cobb -- 3. Community research on relations between stressful life enevts and psychiatric symptomatology: Child behavior and life events : undersirable change or change per se? / Joanne C. Gersten ... [et al.] ; Epidemiologic assessment of stressful life events, depressed mood, and psychophysiological symptoms : a preliminary report / Robert E. Markush and Rachel V. Favero ; Social class, life events, and psychiatric symptoms : a longitudinal study / Jerome K. Myers, Jacob J. Linenthal, and Max P. Pepper ; Stressful life events and illness : a research area in need of conceptual development / Sheppard G. Kellam -- 4. Methodological research on stressful life events: Meaning, measurement, and stress of life events / George W. Brown ; Conceptual and methodological problems in the study of resistance resources and stressful life events / Aaron Antonovsky ; Perception of life crisis events : a comparative study of rural and urban samples / F.T. Miller ... [et al.] ; Problems in defining and sampling the relevant population of stressful life events / Bruce P. Dohrenwend -- 5. Conclusion: Overview and prospects for research on stressful life events / Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and Bruce P. Dohrenwend |
| Analysis |
Man Diseases Role of stress |
| Notes |
"A Wiley-Interscience publication." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Life change events -- Congresses.
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Stress (Psychology)
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Stress (Psychology) -- Congresses.
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Stress, Psychological.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Dohrenwend, Barbara Snell, editor
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Dohrenwend, Bruce Philip, 1927- editor
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| LC no. |
74006369 |
| ISBN |
0471217530 |
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