This volume brings into focus the critical issues in theory and research in the psychological study of stress and health. In particular, it emphasizes the role of diverse socio-cultural factors in conceptualizing and analyzing stress and health related constructs and processes. Also it tries to locate stress and health phenomena at different levels and diverse domains of human functioning. The contributors are active researchers in the field of health and have addressed a wide range of issues including quality of life, social support and its relationship with stress, social psychology of health behaviour, perceived control and coping, stresses of working women and school going children, coping with chronic illness, environmental stress, mediators of stress and conceptual and methodilogical issues in stress-health research. By offering a broad ranging and clear exposition to the field of stress and health which guides the reader through the diverse strands of the field, the present volume articulates the research and practice in a comprehensive fashion.
المزيد من الكتب الإلكترونية من نفس المؤلف (المؤلفين) / محرر
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