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Stress and Strategy (Paperback)
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Stress and Strategy (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Revivals
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Originally published in 1987, this title is concerned with the
association between stress and control, and the implications for
strategic response. It aims both to provide an up-to-date,
comprehensive account of research in the area of stress for the
advanced student and to develop a new synthesis of ideas leading to
a cognitive model of stress and illness. The book reflects the idea
that responses to stressful conditions are likely to be strategic,
designed in order to achieve control in different ways. Concepts
such as responsibility, instrumentality and predictability are
discussed in an attempt to make the relationship between stress and
control explicit. Different forms of the exercise of control are
identified as features of strategy. A cognitive model of illness is
developed, which assumes that the characteristics of strategies
specified in terms of modes of control determine the features of
'arousal pathology' via hormone routes and thus influence the risk
of illness. This differs from existing models at the time, which
emphasise environmental properties such as incongruence, status
inconsistency or 'rule breakdown' as determinants. A 'constrained
resource' approach is emphasised, in which cognitive style and
particular experiences exercise constraint on the range of
strategies available in cognition. Hence these factors influence
the risk of different kinds of ill health when life stresses are
encountered. The book provides details of evidence and theory as
well as new ideas and models. It will still be of interest to
students of psychology, social science and medicine, who are
concerned with stress and its relationship with human and health
efficiency.
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