Advances in the conceptualization of the stress process: essays in honor of Leonard I. Pearlin

The stress process paradigm has been one of the most dominant conceptual models of health and illness over the past three decades. The contributions to this volume chart a new course for the stress process, extending the paradigm conceptually, methodologically, and substantively. Written in honor of Leonard I.Pearlin, the leading proponent of the stress process, the contributions to this volume provide a new direction for stress process research. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, and an afterword by Leonard I. Pearlin, this comprehensive volume covers three major sections: -Conceptual and methodological extensions of the stress process -The roles of family and work in the stress process, throughout the life course - Psychosocial factors that impact health outcomes. This volume will be an invaluable resource for researchers in sociology, social psychology and public health, all seeking to understand the pervasive role of stress on social disparities in health and illness. Interdisciplinary examination of the stress process, its methodology, and applications Provides new directions for stress process research, from contributors who are leading researchers in their respective fields First of its kind within the past decade to comprehensively examine the state of stress process research and its developments INDICE: Understanding the Stress Process.- Compensatory Coping with Stressors.- Neighborhood as a Social Context of the Stress Process.- Suppression Effects in Social Stress Research and their Implications for the Stress Process Model.- Family Structure and Women’s Lives.- Stress Process in Families.- Linking Family of Origin to Young Adult Mental Disorders.- Work, Family, and their Intersection.- The Political Economies of Stress.- The Self-Concept in Late Life.- The Psychosocial Implications of Mastery in Mali and the U.S.- Stress Processes in Type 2 Diabetes.- Religious Worldviews and the Subjective Stress of Parenting Stress in Old Age.- Relative and Joint Effects of Recent Victimization Exposure and Lifetime Adversity on Child Mental Health.- A Stress Process without Borders.

• ISBN: 978-1-4419-1020-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés