1st Edition

Social Stress

By Sol Levine Copyright 1970
310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
One: Introduction; 1: Social Stress; Two: Sources of Stress; 2: The Family as a Source of Stress; 3: Work, Organization and Stress; 4: Class and Race as Status-Related Sources of Stress 1; Three: Consequences of Stress; 5: Cognitive and Personality Factors Underlying Threat and Coping; 6: Experimental Studies of Conflict-Produced Stress; 7: Physical Illness in Response to Stress; 8: Mental Illness in Response to Stress; 9: Social Pathology and Stress; Four: Conclusions and Implications; 10: Models of Stress; 11: Perspectives on Stress Research

Biography

Sol Levine