Stress, Culture, and Community: The Psychology and Philosophy of Stress / Edition 1

by S.E. Hobfoll

Overview

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 dialogue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306484445
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	05/31/2004
Series:	The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

1. The Social and Historical Context of Stress.- 2. The Evolutionary and Cultural Basis of the Stress Experience.- 3. Conservation of Resources Theory: Principles and Corollaries.- 4. Majesty, Mastery, and Malignment.- 5. Our Coping as Individuals within Families and Tribes.- 6. Marching to a Different Drum, Singing the Same Song.- 7. Turbulent Spiral or Graceful Pirouette: Cycles of Resource Loss and Gain.- 8. Stress Crossover: The Commerce of Resources across the Borders That Divide and Unite People, Organizations, and Tribes.- 9. Aiding Resource Acquisition and Protection in Ecological Context.- References.- Author Index.

Editorial Reviews

"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)

From the Publisher

Focuses on how stress evolves and is resolved in the interplay between persons and their social connectedness within family. The author argues that the conventional view of psychology, which individualizes stress, is wrong, and that a better explanation ties stress to peoples social attachments in the real world. Concerned more with the process than the outcomes of stress formation, he puts forward a theory that states that the primary motivation of human beings is to conserve their social resources in order to protect the self and its social attachments. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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