Measuring Stress

A Guide for Health and Social Scientists

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Brand: OUP USA

ISBN: 9780195121209

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This book is a resource for health and social scientists who assess the role of stress in their studies of physical and psychiatric illness. This work 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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Brand OUP USA

Reference 84816

EAN13 9780195121209

ISBN 9780195121209

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Publication date: 1998
Issue number: 1
Cover: paperback
Pages count: 248
Dimensions (mm): 156 x 236
Weight (g): 362

Part I:: Conceptualizing Stress and Its Relation to Disease; Strategies for measuring stress in studies of psychiatric and physical disorders; Part II:: Environmental Perspectives; Check-list measurement of stressful life events; Interview measurement of stressful life events; Daily and within-day event measurement; Measurement of chronic stressors; Part III:: Psychological Perspectives; Measurement of stress appraisal; Measurement of affective response; Part IV:: Biological Perspectives; Measurement of stress hormones; Measurement of cardiovascular response; Measurement of immune response;