Measuring Stress: A Guide for Health and Social Scientists - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195086414 ISBN 13: 9780195086416

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Measuring Stress is the definitive resource for health and social scientists interested in assessing stress in humans. With contributions from leading experts, this work provides for the first time a unified conceptual overview of the intricate relationship between stress and a variety of disorders. Its interdisciplinary approach to the selection of appropriate environmental, psychological, and biological measures includes comprehensive evaluations and practical advice regarding a wide range of measurement approaches. For environmental stress, techniques such as checklists and interviews that measure life event, daily event, and chronic stress are discussed. An analysis of psychological measurements includes methods for assessing stress appraisal and affective response. Neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and immune measures are examined as important biological stress assessments. Contributors also uncover the conceptual underpinnings of each approach as well as the various costs and benefits of available assessment techniques. Reflecting the diversity of theoretical conceptions of stress, Measuring Stress masterfully provides integrative, incisive guidelines that will prove invaluable to students, clinicians, and researchers in health and social psychology, medicine, nursing, epidemiology, sociology, and psychiatry.

About this title

About the Author:

Sheldon Cohen is at Carnegie Mellon University. Ronald C. Kessler is at University of Michigan.

Review:

". . .their work is coherent, lively, and to the point." --Contemporary Psychology

"A valuable resource for all individuals interested in any aspect of stress research." --Health and Stress

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0195086414
• ISBN 13: 9780195086416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Cohen Sheldon, Kessler Ronald C., Gordon Lynn Underwood