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

Cohen, Sheldon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195086414 ISBN 13: 9780195086416

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1995

Synopsis

This is a resource for health and social scientists who assess the role of stress in studies of physical and psychiatric illness. It discusses how stress is conceptualized, the pathways through which stressors influence the onset and progression of psychiatric and physical illness, the alternate methods of measuring stress, and how one decides on appropriate measurement.

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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
," . .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
." . .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
." . .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

." . .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 the Author

Seldon Cohen, composer, arranger and conductor with the Pacific Pops Orchestra.

Ronald C. Kessler is professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School. He is coeditor of several volumes, including, most recently, "How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife," also published by the University of Chicago Press. Paul E. Stang is associate professor in the College of Health Sciences at the West Chester University of Pennsylvania and executive vice president and chief scientific officer at Galt Associates, a medical risk management consulting firm.

Accord Publishing is a publisher of New York Times bestselling children's books based in Denver, Colorado and a division of Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195086414
• ISBN 13: 9780195086416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 249