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Stress, Culture, and Community
Stevan E. Hobfoll
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Description for Stress, Culture, and Community
Paperback. Focuses on how stress evolves and this work is resolved in the interplay between persons and their social connectedness within family, tribe, and culture. It maintains that the primary motivation of human beings is to build, protect, and foster their resource reservoirs in order to protect the self and its social attachments. Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JM; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 980.
This original work focuses on how stress evolves and is resolved in the interplay between persons and their social connectedness within family, tribe, and culture. Stress, Culture, and Community maintains that the primary motivation of human beings is to build, protect, and foster their resource reservoirs in order to protect the self and its social attachments. Stevan E. Hobfoll searches for the causes of psychological distress and potential methods of successful stress resistance by probing the ties that bind people in families, communities, and cultures. By focusing on the `process" rather than the `outcomes' of stress, he reshapes the stress ... Read more
This original work focuses on how stress evolves and is resolved in the interplay between persons and their social connectedness within family, tribe, and culture. Stress, Culture, and Community maintains that the primary motivation of human beings is to build, protect, and foster their resource reservoirs in order to protect the self and its social attachments. Stevan E. Hobfoll searches for the causes of psychological distress and potential methods of successful stress resistance by probing the ties that bind people in families, communities, and cultures. By focusing on the `process" rather than the `outcomes' of stress, he reshapes the stress ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306484445
SKU
V9780306484445
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Reviews for Stress, Culture, and Community
"May be the most important book on stress and coping since Lazarus's landmark work more than three decades ago." (Charles D. Spielberger, University of South Florida, Tampa) "A landmark publication that will change the way people think about stress, coping and social support...The book is a masterpiece." (Ralf Schwarzer, Free University of Berlin, Germany)