Cooper, Cary L.
Stress: A Brief History
Stress: A Brief History is a lively, accessible, and detailed examination of the origins of the field of stress research.
- First concise, accessible, academically grounded book on the origins of the concept of stress.
- Explores different theories and models of stress such as the psychosomatic approach, homeostasis, and general adaptation syndrome.
- Discusses the work and intriguing contributions of key researchers in the field such as Walter Cannon, Hans Selye, Harold Wolff, and Richard Lazarus.
- Explains the origins of key concepts in stress such as stressful life events, the coronary-prone personality, and appraisals and coping.
- Culminates in a discussion of what makes a good theory and what obligations stress researchers have to those whose working lives they study.
Keywords: PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology PSY021000
- Author(s)
- Cooper, Cary L.
- Dewe, Philip
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 160 pages
- Category
- Psychology
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470777725
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405107457