Measuring stress [electronic resource] : a guide for health and social scientists / edited by Sheldon Cohen, Ronald C. Kessler and Lynn Underwood Gordon.
Contributor(s): Cohen, Sheldon [editor.] | Kessler, Ronald C [editor.] | Underwood, Lynn G [editor.].
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998Description: 256p.ISBN: 9780198024743 (e-book).Subject(s): Stress (Physiology) -- Measurement | Stress (Psychology) -- Measurement | Health and Wellbeing | Social impact of disasters | Health psychology | Epidemiology & medical statistics | Psychiatry | Psychological testing & measurement | Social, group or collective psychology | Public health & preventive medicineGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: View this item online Also available in printed form ISBN 9780195121209Summary: Measuring Stress provides a resource for health and social scientists who assess the role of stress in their studies of physical and psychiatric illness. This book is a resource for health and social scientists who assess the role of stress in their studies of physical and psychiatric illness. This work discusses how stress is conceptualized, the pathways through which stressors influence the onset and progression of psychiatric and physical illness, the alternate methods of measuring stress, and how one decides on appropriate measurement.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Originally published: New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Measuring Stress provides a resource for health and social scientists who assess the role of stress in their studies of physical and psychiatric illness. This book is a resource for health and social scientists who assess the role of stress in their studies of physical and psychiatric illness. This work discusses how stress is conceptualized, the pathways through which stressors influence the onset and progression of psychiatric and physical illness, the alternate methods of measuring stress, and how one decides on appropriate measurement.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9780195121209
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