Physicians are not alone in their concern with stress. Other
professionals, such as psychologists and social workers, invoke
stress to explain social pathology, for example, alcoholism,
suicide, and drug abuse. They are joined by additional individuals
in implicating stress in the development of disease. Indeed,
conventional wisdom has long noted that to worry, be tense, or take
things hard, is to increase one's vulnerability to disease.
Sol Levine and Norman A. Scotch argue that whether the focus
upon stress is in its origins and its management, or upon its
relationship to individual pathology and behavior, it is necessary
to appreciate its complexity and its various dimensions. In
particular, they discuss and answer the following common questions:
To what extent do various work and organizational settings engender
stress for various occupants? To what degree does upward and
downward social mobility create stress? What are the effects of
family disruptions--death, divorce, or desertion--upon the
psychological state of the individual?
This book presents a clear and comprehensive picture of the
phenomena encompassed within the conceptual rubric of stress and to
explicate such specific levels or dimensions as the sources of
stress, its management, and its consequences. The contributors are
top researchers from the fields of sociology, anthropology,
psychology, and medicine. They include Sydney H. Croog, Edward
Gross, Barbara Snell Dohrenwend, Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Richard S.
Lazarus, Andrew Crider, John Cassell, E. Gartly Jaco, James E.
Teele, Robert Scott, and Alan Howard. The work concludes with a
statement by the editors summarizing the data and themes that are
presented throughout the work. This work should be read by all
individuals. In particular, it will be invaluable for sociologists,
psychologists, and professional social scientists.
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