Stress, Culture, and Community: The Psychology and Philosophy of Stress

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2004 M05 31 - 296 páginas
This original work focuses on how stress evolves and is resolved in the interplay between persons and their social connectedness within family, tribe, and culture. Stress, Culture, and Community maintains that the primary motivation of human beings is to build, protect, and foster their resource reservoirs in order to protect the self and its social attachments. Stevan E. Hobfoll searches for the causes of psychological distress and potential methods of successful stress resistance by probing the ties that bind people in families, communities, and cultures. By focusing on the `process" rather than the `outcomes' of stress, he reshapes the stress dialogue.

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The Social and Historical Context of Stress
1
The Age of Stress as a Paradigm
8
Beware When Buying a Theory That Fits a Little Too Well
17
The Evolutionary and Cultural Basis of the Stress
25
Stress Based on a Model of Social Development
42
Principles
51
Categories of Resources
57
Principle 1
62
Conclusions
139
Conclusions
160
Cycles
165
Rapid Loss and Gain Cycles
173
COR Theory Applied
182
Summary
188
Common Cycles and Processes
196
Forgotten Social Conflict
205

The Value of Gains
68
Resource Spirals and the Linkages of Resources
80
Majesty Mastery and Malignment
89
Adaptation
96
Model of Ecological Congruence
102
Bending the Ecological Rules to Benefit the Ennobled
109
Conclusions
117
Secular and Recent Historical Influences and the Emergence
123
The Illusion of SelfReliance
130
Direct Challenge to Resource Exchange
215
Conclusions
227
Defect versus Environmental Explanations
237
COR Principles of Intervention
246
Conclusions
260
References
265
Author Index 287
287
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