Stress, Appraisal, and Coping

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Springer Publishing Company, Mar 15, 1984 - Medical - 456 pages

The reissue of a classic work, now with a foreword by Daniel Goleman!

Here is a monumental work that continues in the tradition pioneered by co-author Richard Lazarus in his classic book Psychological Stress and the Coping Process. Dr. Lazarus and his collaborator, Dr. Susan Folkman, present here a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping which have become major themes of theory and investigation.

As an integrative theoretical analysis, this volume pulls together two decades of research and thought on issues in behavioral medicine, emotion, stress management, treatment, and life span development. A selective review of the most pertinent literature is included in each chapter. The total reference listing for the book extends to 60 pages.

This work is necessarily multidisciplinary, reflecting the many dimensions of stress-related problems and their situation within a complex social context. While the emphasis is on psychological aspects of stress, the book is oriented towards professionals in various disciplines, as well as advanced students and educated laypersons. The intended audience ranges from psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, nurses, and social workers to sociologists, anthropologists, medical researchers, and physiologists.

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... theory and research , exemplified by his 1966 book , Psychological Stress and the Coping Process , and by his influential psychophysiological re- search during the 1960s . Professor Lazarus maintains an active pro- gram of research as ...
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... Theory of Emotion Attribution Theory 265 271 The Relationship Between Cognition and Emotion 273 Emotion and the Problem of Reductionism 278 Summary 284 10 Methodological Issues 286 Levels of Analysis 286 Traditional Research and Thought ...
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... theory and research , and our own approaches to these con- cepts had further developed and expanded . It was again time to pull together the field of stress , coping , and adaptation from the perspec- tive of our current research and ...
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... theory of Hull ( 1943 ) and Spence ( 1956 ) . Anxiety was viewed as a classically condi- tioned response that led to unserviceable ( pathological ) habits of anxi- ety - reduction ( cf. Dollard & Miller , 1950 ) . In most of the first ...
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... theory and research on stress , was the publication by Janis ( 1958 ) of an intensive study of surgical threat in a patient under psycho- analytic treatment . This was followed by an increasing number of books also devoted to the ...

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Contents

1 The Stress Concept in the Life Sciences
1
2 Cognitive Appraisal Processes
22
3 Person Factors Influencing Appraisal
55
4 Situation Factors Influencing Appraisal
82
5 The Concept of Coping
117
An Alternative to Traditional Formulations
141
7 Appraisal Coping and Adaptational Outcomes
181
8 The Individual and Society
226
9 Cognitive Theories of Emotion
261
10 Methodological Issues
286
11 Treatment and Stress Management
334
References
376
Index
437
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Richard S. Lazarus, PhD,Susan Folkman, PhD
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About the author (1984)

Richard S. Lazarus (1922-2002) taught at Johns Hopkins University, Clark University, and, from 1957 until his retirement in 1991, the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, Dr. Lazarus began his influential research into psychological stress and coping processes which contributed substantially to the "cognitive revolution" that occurred in psychology during the 1960's. Dr. Lazarus published over 200 scientific articles in social, personality, clinical, and health psychology and 20 books

Susan Folkman, PhD, is the Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and the Osher Foundation Distinguished Professor of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Since 1990, she has also been Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and from 1994 until 2001 she was Co-Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.

Bibliographic information

TitleStress, Appraisal, and Coping
AuthorsRichard S. Lazarus, PhD, Susan Folkman, PhD
Editionreprint
PublisherSpringer Publishing Company, 1984
ISBN0826141927, 9780826141927
Length456 pages
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