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Document ID (ISN)66766
CIS number 96-1166
ISBN(s) 0-88937-065-6
Year 1992
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Perrez M., Reicherts M.
Title Stress, coping, and health - A situation-behaviour approach: Theory, methods, applications
Bibliographic information Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, P.O. Box 2487, Kirkland, WA 98083-2487, USA, 1992. vi, 233p. 216 ref. Index. Price: USD 24.00.
Abstract Part I of this textbook presents a theoretical framework for a situation-behaviour approach to stress and coping. Part II describes new approaches to the assessment of stress and coping: a stimulus-response questionnaire; the impact of situation and process on stress and coping; a computer-assisted self-observation system; prediction of stress and coping in the natural setting. Part III describes applications in clinical and health psychology: depressed people coping with aversive situations and with loss and failure; HIV-infection and stress; mental health and coping with everyday stressors; work stress in medical care units; adequate coping behaviour.
Descriptors (primary) neuropsychic stress; mental stress; human behaviour; psychology and sociology
Descriptors (secondary) mental health; immunodeficiency syndrome; stress factors; health care personnel; manuals
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Country / State or ProvinceSwitzerland
Subject(s) Psychology and sociology
Broad subject area(s) Stress, psychosocial factors
Browse category(ies) Psychological factors
Mental stress and burnout