Individual Differences, Stress, and Health Psychology

Individual Differences, Stress, and Health Psychology presents recent research on how individual differences lead to the variety of reactions people display to stressors. These reactions are considered particularly in their relation to health and illness. Distinguished international researchers in health psychology speculate on the future of the field and its application to developing treatments or changes in lifestyles that may prevent or alleviate such disorders as cancer, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. The volume makes a significant contribution to the study of the relation between stress and health processes.

List of contents

Contents: The Impact of Certain Emotions in Cardiovascular Disorders.- Hassles, Health and Happiness.- The Type A Behavior Pattern and Coronary Heart Disease: Physiological and Psychological Dimensions.- Sensation Seeking, Risk Taking and Health.- The Experience, Expression and Control of Anger.- Social Support, Personality, and Health.- Personality and Stress as Causal Factors in Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease.- Temperamental Dimensions as Co-Determinants of Resistance to Stress.- Author Index.- Subject Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michel P. Janisse (Editor), Michel Pierre Janisse (Editor), Miche P Janisse (Editor), Michel P Janisse (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2012
• EAN: 9781461283676
• ISBN: 978-1-4612-8367-6
• No. of pages: 191
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 240 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 324 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 191 p.
• Series: Contributions to Psychology and Medicine; Contributions to Psychology and Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology